What the night sky looks like over Lake Jackson, TX

Lake Jackson reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 46.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Lake Jackson.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Lake Jackson

Iowa Colony, TX, about 27 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Lake Jackson. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Iowa Colony, 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 Jackson against the rest of the dataset

Lake Jackson, TX counts roughly 28,158 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Lake Jackson ranks 1,473 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.