Frisco, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Frisco's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 86% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Frisco.

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 Frisco

6 miles from Frisco, straight-line, sits Prosper, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Frisco's own urban band.

Prosper, 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 Frisco compares nationally

About 235,208 people live in Frisco, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Frisco places 2,742 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.