Dickinson, TX: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Dickinson in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 14.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Dickinson.

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 Dickinson

10 miles from Dickinson, straight-line, sits Texas City, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Dickinson's own suburban edge band.

Texas City, 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 Dickinson compares nationally

Dickinson, TX counts roughly 21,941 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Dickinson places 465 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.