Garden City, ID's night sky, measured from orbit

Garden City's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 12.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Garden City.

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 Garden City

West Richland, WA, about 237 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Garden City. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Garden City compares nationally

About 12,936 people live in Garden City, ID, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Garden City places 400 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.