Kenner, LA's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Kenner in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 94.1% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

The nearest darker sky to Kenner

New Orleans, LA, about 19 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Kenner. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Kenner compares nationally

About 64,650 people live in Kenner, LA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Kenner places 3,001 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.