Farmington, MN: how dark is the sky here?

Farmington 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. That's brighter than 15.8% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

The nearest darker sky to Farmington

Rosemount, MN, about 8 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Farmington. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Rosemount, MN 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 compares nationally

Farmington, MN counts roughly 24,464 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Farmington places 506 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.