Durango, CO Night Sky Brightness
Durango, CO's night sky, measured from orbit
Durango's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 7.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Durango.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Durango
160 miles from Durango, straight-line, sits Glenwood Springs, CO, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Durango's own rural band.
Glenwood Springs, CO is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Durango compares nationally
Durango, CO counts roughly 19,811 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Durango's position, 232 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.