Foley, AL's night sky, measured from orbit

Foley reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 17.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Foley.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

Where to go for a darker sky near Foley

20 miles from Foley, straight-line, sits Daphne, AL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Foley's own suburban edge band.

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

How Foley compares nationally

Foley, AL has a population of about 28,043, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Foley places 558 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.