Farmington, MI Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Farmington, MI
Farmington reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 56.3% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Farmington.
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 Bortle scale guide covers why.
How far Farmington is from a meaningfully darker sky
Farmington Hills, MI, about 2 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Farmington. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Farmington Hills, MI is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Farmington against the rest of the dataset
Farmington, MI has a population of about 11,547, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Farmington ranks 1,795 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.