El Reno, OK's night sky, measured from orbit

El Reno'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 13.2% 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 El Reno

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Yukon, OK, roughly 11 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

How El Reno compares nationally

About 20,041 people live in El Reno, OK, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. El Reno places 423 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.