Farmington, NM Night Sky Brightness
Farmington, NM's night sky, measured from orbit
Farmington's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 40.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Farmington.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Farmington
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Durango, CO, roughly 39 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.
Durango, CO 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
About 46,262 people live in Farmington, NM, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Farmington's position, 1,292 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.