What the night sky looks like over El Paso, TX

Satellite radiance puts El Paso in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 59.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than El Paso.

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.

The nearest darker sky to El Paso

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Sunland Park, NM, roughly 10 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

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

El Paso against the rest of the dataset

El Paso, TX counts roughly 681,723 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, El Paso ranks 1,903 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.