Houston, TX: how dark is the sky here?

Houston'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 88.3% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Houston.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

Where to go for a darker sky near Houston

West University Place, TX, about 5 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Houston. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Houston compares nationally

Houston, TX has a population of about 2,390,125, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Houston places 2,814 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.