What the night sky looks like over East Bethel, MN

East Bethel reads as dark sky on this dataset's scale. Among the darkest skies of any US city in this dataset. The Milky Way should be visible overhead on clear, moonless nights. That's brighter than 0.8% of the 3,206 US 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.

East Bethel is already about as dark as this dataset gets

Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than East Bethel. That doesn't mean nowhere is darker, unincorporated land and wilderness aren't part of this dataset at all, only incorporated cities of 10,000 people or more.

East Bethel against the rest of the dataset

East Bethel, MN has a population of about 12,288, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, East Bethel ranks 29 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.