What the night sky looks like over Fayetteville, NC

Satellite radiance puts Fayetteville in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 46.9% of the 3,206 US 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

7 miles from Fayetteville, straight-line, sits Spring Lake, NC, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Fayetteville's own suburban band.

Spring Lake, NC 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, NC has a population of about 209,496, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Fayetteville ranks 1,496 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.