What the night sky looks like over Hopkins, MN

Hopkins's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 95.3% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Hopkins.

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 Hopkins

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is St. Louis Park, MN, roughly 3 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

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

Hopkins against the rest of the dataset

Hopkins, MN counts roughly 19,462 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Hopkins ranks 3,037 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.