What the night sky looks like over Fargo, ND

Fargo's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 98.3% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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 Fargo

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is West Fargo, ND, roughly 4 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

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

Fargo against the rest of the dataset

About 136,285 people live in Fargo, ND, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Fargo ranks 3,133 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.