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.

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 places 2,319 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.