Gilbert, AZ: how dark is the sky here?

Gilbert's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Gilbert's sky is brighter than 92.3% of the 3,206 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Gilbert

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Mesa, AZ, roughly 6 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

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

How Gilbert compares nationally

Gilbert, AZ has a population of about 288,790, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Gilbert places 2,943 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.