Eden Prairie, MN's night sky, measured from orbit

Eden Prairie's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 19% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

The nearest darker sky to Eden Prairie

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Minnetonka, MN, roughly 6 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

How Eden Prairie compares nationally

Eden Prairie, MN counts roughly 62,905 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Eden Prairie places 607 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.