Junction City, KS: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Junction City 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. Junction City's sky is brighter than 13% 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 Junction City

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Lenexa, KS, roughly 110 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

How Junction City compares nationally

About 22,053 people live in Junction City, KS, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Junction City places 414 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.