Gardendale, AL's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Gardendale in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 7.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Gardendale.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

Where to go for a darker sky near Gardendale

22 miles from Gardendale, straight-line, sits Hueytown, AL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Gardendale's own rural band.

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

How Gardendale compares nationally

About 16,444 people live in Gardendale, AL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Gardendale places 241 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.