Fuquay-Varina, NC's night sky, measured from orbit

Fuquay-Varina reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Fuquay-Varina's sky is brighter than 9.9% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Fuquay-Varina

Suffolk, VA, about 141 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Fuquay-Varina. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Fuquay-Varina compares nationally

About 46,317 people live in Fuquay-Varina, NC, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Fuquay-Varina places 319 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.