DarkSkyCheck

Kissimmee, FL Night Sky Brightness

How dark is the sky in Kissimmee, FL?

Urban
84.8 nW/cm2/sr

Kissimmee's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 98.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Kissimmee.

Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.

How far Kissimmee is from a meaningfully darker sky

St. Cloud, FL, about 10 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Kissimmee. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Kissimmee against the rest of the dataset

Kissimmee, FL counts roughly 84,756 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Kissimmee comes in at 3,126, darkest to brightest.