Dumas, TX: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Dumas in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Dumas's sky is brighter than 79.2% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Dumas

60 miles from Dumas, straight-line, sits Canyon, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Dumas's own suburban band.

Canyon, 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 Dumas compares nationally

About 14,834 people live in Dumas, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Dumas places 2,527 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.