Farmington Hills, MI's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Farmington Hills in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 22.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Farmington Hills.

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 Farmington Hills

Oregon, OH, about 57 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Farmington Hills. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Farmington Hills compares nationally

Farmington Hills, MI counts roughly 84,173 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Farmington Hills places 717 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.