Kerrville, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Kerrville 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. Kerrville's sky is brighter than 30.2% of the 3,206 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Kerrville

Fair Oaks Ranch, TX, about 36 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Kerrville. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Fair Oaks Ranch, 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 Kerrville compares nationally

About 25,141 people live in Kerrville, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Kerrville places 962 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.