What the night sky looks like over Flint, MI

Flint 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. Flint's sky is brighter than 92.3% 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.

How far Flint is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Burton, MI, roughly 4 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

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

Flint against the rest of the dataset

Flint, MI counts roughly 79,735 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Flint ranks 2,944 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.