Knoxville, TN Night Sky Brightness
Knoxville, TN's night sky, measured from orbit
Knoxville's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 72.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Knoxville.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Knoxville
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Farragut, TN, roughly 14 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.
Farragut, TN is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Knoxville compares nationally
About 198,722 people live in Knoxville, TN, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Knoxville's position, 2,319 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.