Kirkwood, MO's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Kirkwood 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. Kirkwood's sky is brighter than 33.2% 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 Kirkwood

Maryland Heights, MO, about 10 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Kirkwood. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Kirkwood compares nationally

Kirkwood, MO counts roughly 29,348 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Kirkwood places 1,058 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.