Deerfield Beach, FL's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Deerfield Beach in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 96% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Deerfield Beach.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

How far Deerfield Beach is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Lighthouse Point, FL, roughly 3 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

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

How Deerfield Beach compares nationally

Deerfield Beach, FL counts roughly 90,507 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Deerfield Beach places 3,062 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.