What the night sky looks like over Excelsior Springs, MO

Excelsior Springs 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. Only 32.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Excelsior Springs.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Excelsior Springs

Smithville, MO, about 18 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Excelsior Springs. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Excelsior Springs against the rest of the dataset

Excelsior Springs, MO has a population of about 10,727, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Excelsior Springs ranks 1,032 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.