Gillette, WY's night sky, measured from orbit

Gillette's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Gillette's sky is brighter than 91.9% of the 3,206 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.

The nearest darker sky to Gillette

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Sheridan, WY, roughly 81 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

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

How Gillette compares nationally

About 33,846 people live in Gillette, WY, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Gillette places 2,929 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.