Lansing, MI: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Lansing in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 77.6% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

Where to go for a darker sky near Lansing

Ionia, MI, about 32 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Lansing. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Lansing compares nationally

Lansing, MI has a population of about 114,336, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Lansing places 2,474 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.