What the night sky looks like over Fayetteville, AR

Fayetteville 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. Fayetteville's sky is brighter than 87.4% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

The nearest darker sky to Fayetteville

5 miles from Fayetteville, straight-line, sits Farmington, AR, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Fayetteville's own urban band.

Farmington, AR is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

Fayetteville against the rest of the dataset

Fayetteville, AR has a population of about 103,134, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Fayetteville ranks 2,786 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.