Layton, UT: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Layton in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 26.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Layton.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Layton

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is West Point, UT, roughly 8 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

How Layton compares nationally

Layton, UT counts roughly 84,348 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Layton places 847 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.