Española, NM: how dark is the sky here?

Española reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. 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 20.6% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

Where to go for a darker sky near Española

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Los Lunas, NM, roughly 92 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

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

How Española compares nationally

Española, NM has a population of about 10,475, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Española places 657 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.