What the night sky looks like over Dallas, TX

Dallas's sky measures inner-city here. Among the brightest skies in this dataset. Usually just the Moon and a few of the brightest stars or planets cut through. Only 98.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Dallas.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

Where to go for a darker sky near Dallas

University Park, TX, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Dallas. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

University Park, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

Dallas against the rest of the dataset

About 1,326,087 people live in Dallas, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Dallas ranks 3,149 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.