Laramie, WY Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Laramie, WY?
Satellite radiance puts Laramie in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 12% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Laramie.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Laramie
80 miles from Laramie, straight-line, sits Evans, CO, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Laramie's own rural band.
Evans, CO is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Laramie against the rest of the dataset
Laramie, WY has a population of about 32,957, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Laramie comes in at 384, darkest to brightest.