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.

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 places 2,864 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.