Friendswood, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Friendswood 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. Friendswood's sky is brighter than 25.9% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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

How far Friendswood is from a meaningfully darker sky

Texas City, TX, about 19 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Friendswood. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Friendswood compares nationally

Friendswood, TX has a population of about 41,291, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Friendswood places 828 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.