What the night sky looks like over Garden City, KS

Garden City 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. That's brighter than 89% of the 3,206 US 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 Garden City

Dodge City, KS, about 48 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Garden City. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Garden City against the rest of the dataset

About 27,996 people live in Garden City, KS, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Garden City ranks 2,838 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.