Evansville, IN's night sky, measured from orbit

Evansville's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 71.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Evansville.

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

Where to go for a darker sky near Evansville

48 miles from Evansville, straight-line, sits Vincennes, IN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Evansville's own suburban band.

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

How Evansville compares nationally

Evansville, IN has a population of about 115,395, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Evansville places 2,282 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.