What the night sky looks like over Flower Mound, TX

Flower Mound's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 18.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Flower Mound.

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 Flower Mound is from a meaningfully darker sky

9 miles from Flower Mound, straight-line, sits Northlake, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Flower Mound's own suburban edge band.

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

Flower Mound against the rest of the dataset

About 79,990 people live in Flower Mound, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Flower Mound ranks 591 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.