What the night sky looks like over Leawood, KS

Leawood 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 48.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Leawood.

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 Leawood

6 miles from Leawood, straight-line, sits Prairie Village, KS, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Leawood's own suburban band.

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

Leawood against the rest of the dataset

About 34,013 people live in Leawood, KS, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Leawood ranks 1,536 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.