What the night sky looks like over Fort Walton Beach, FL

Fort Walton Beach'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 31.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Fort Walton Beach.

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 Fort Walton Beach

Crestview, FL, about 22 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Fort Walton Beach. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Fort Walton Beach against the rest of the dataset

Fort Walton Beach, FL has a population of about 21,188, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Fort Walton Beach ranks 1,019 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.