Farmington, UT Night Sky Brightness
Farmington, UT's night sky, measured from orbit
Farmington reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 89.8% 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
4 miles from Farmington, straight-line, sits Kaysville, UT, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Farmington's own urban band.
Kaysville, UT 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, UT has a population of about 26,163, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Farmington's position, 2,864 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.