What the night sky looks like over Gainesville, TX

Gainesville reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Gainesville's sky is brighter than 90.7% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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 Gainesville

18 miles from Gainesville, straight-line, sits Sanger, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Gainesville's own urban band.

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

Gainesville against the rest of the dataset

About 18,295 people live in Gainesville, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Gainesville ranks 2,891 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.