Indianapolis, IN: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Indianapolis in the inner-city band. Among the brightest skies in this dataset. Usually just the Moon and a few of the brightest stars or planets cut through. Indianapolis's sky is brighter than 99.2% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Indianapolis

Beech Grove, IN, about 5 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Indianapolis. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Indianapolis compares nationally

Indianapolis, IN has a population of about 891,484, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Indianapolis places 3,164 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.