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.

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 places 1,292 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.