DarkSkyCheck

Greeneville, TN Night Sky Brightness

Greeneville, TN's night sky, measured from orbit

Suburban
23.9 nW/cm2/sr

Greeneville's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Greeneville's sky is brighter than 53.7% 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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.

Where to go for a darker sky near Greeneville

43 miles from Greeneville, straight-line, sits Bristol, TN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Greeneville's own suburban band.

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

How Greeneville compares nationally

Greeneville, TN has a population of about 15,979, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Greeneville's position, 1,714 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.