DarkSkyCheck

Hialeah Gardens, FL Night Sky Brightness

What the night sky looks like over Hialeah Gardens, FL

Urban
77.1 nW/cm2/sr

Satellite radiance puts Hialeah Gardens in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Hialeah Gardens's sky is brighter than 97.3% 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 - the Bortle scale guide covers why.

Where to go for a darker sky near Hialeah Gardens

6 miles from Hialeah Gardens, straight-line, sits Miramar, FL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Hialeah Gardens's own urban band.

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

Hialeah Gardens against the rest of the dataset

Hialeah Gardens, FL has a population of about 23,328, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Hialeah Gardens ranks 3,102 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.