What the night sky looks like over Lake Charles, LA

Satellite radiance puts Lake Charles in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 96.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Lake Charles.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

How far Lake Charles is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Orange, TX, roughly 33 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

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

Lake Charles against the rest of the dataset

Lake Charles, LA counts roughly 81,157 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Lake Charles ranks 3,079 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.