Lauderdale Lakes, FL's night sky, measured from orbit

Lauderdale Lakes's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 96.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Lauderdale Lakes.

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 Lauderdale Lakes

North Lauderdale, FL, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Lauderdale Lakes. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Lauderdale Lakes compares nationally

About 37,333 people live in Lauderdale Lakes, FL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Lauderdale Lakes places 3,067 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.