What the night sky looks like over Hot Springs, AR

Hot Springs reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 51.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Hot Springs.

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 Hot Springs

Little Rock, AR, about 43 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Hot Springs. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Hot Springs against the rest of the dataset

About 37,971 people live in Hot Springs, AR, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Hot Springs ranks 1,632 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.