What the night sky looks like over Grand Island, NE

Grand Island reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 76.9% 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 Grand Island

North Platte, NE, about 125 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Grand Island. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Grand Island against the rest of the dataset

Grand Island, NE has a population of about 53,250, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Grand Island ranks 2,452 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.