What the night sky looks like over Delray Beach, FL

Delray Beach reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Delray Beach's sky is brighter than 90.1% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Delray Beach

Boynton Beach, FL, about 5 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Delray Beach. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Delray Beach against the rest of the dataset

Delray Beach, FL counts roughly 70,140 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Delray Beach ranks 2,873 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.