Garner, NC Night Sky Brightness
Garner, NC's night sky, measured from orbit
Garner reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 37.6% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Garner
Clayton, NC, about 10 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Garner. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Clayton, NC is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Garner compares nationally
Garner, NC has a population of about 39,345, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Garner's position, 1,198 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.