La Grange, KY's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts La Grange in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 86.2% of the 3,206 US 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.

The nearest darker sky to La Grange

15 miles from La Grange, straight-line, sits Lyndon, KY, the nearest city here with a darker sky than La Grange's own urban band.

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

How La Grange compares nationally

About 10,541 people live in La Grange, KY, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. La Grange places 2,747 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.