Denton, TX: how dark is the sky here?

Denton's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 94.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Denton.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

Where to go for a darker sky near Denton

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Corinth, TX, roughly 6 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

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

How Denton compares nationally

Denton, TX counts roughly 165,998 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Denton places 3,026 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.