What the night sky looks like over Kingsport, TN

Satellite radiance puts Kingsport 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. Only 98.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Kingsport.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

Where to go for a darker sky near Kingsport

Johnson City, TN, about 15 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the urban band, one step darker than Kingsport. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Kingsport against the rest of the dataset

Kingsport, TN counts roughly 57,109 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Kingsport ranks 3,151 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.