Hibbing, MN's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Hibbing in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 21.4% of the 3,206 US 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.

How far Hibbing is from a meaningfully darker sky

51 miles from Hibbing, straight-line, sits Cloquet, MN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Hibbing's own suburban edge band.

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

How Hibbing compares nationally

Hibbing, MN has a population of about 15,940, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Hibbing places 683 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.