Gallatin, TN Night Sky Brightness
Gallatin, TN: how dark is the sky here?
Satellite radiance puts Gallatin in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 66.5% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.
This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.
The nearest darker sky to Gallatin
13 miles from Gallatin, straight-line, sits Mount Juliet, TN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Gallatin's own suburban band.
Mount Juliet, TN is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Gallatin compares nationally
Gallatin, TN has a population of about 52,489, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Gallatin places 2,120 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.