What the night sky looks like over Great Falls, MT

Satellite radiance puts Great Falls in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 91.3% 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 Great Falls

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Belgrade, MT, roughly 119 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

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

Great Falls against the rest of the dataset

About 60,013 people live in Great Falls, MT, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Great Falls ranks 2,912 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.