Fayetteville, AR Night Sky Brightness
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 Bortle scale guide covers why.
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, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.