What the night sky looks like over Greenville, SC

Satellite radiance puts Greenville in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Greenville's sky is brighter than 85.3% of the 3,206 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.

How far Greenville is from a meaningfully darker sky

Fountain Inn, SC, about 13 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Greenville. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Greenville against the rest of the dataset

Greenville, SC counts roughly 74,371 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Greenville ranks 2,718 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.