Lee's Summit, MO's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Lee's Summit 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 39.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Lee's Summit.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

How far Lee's Summit is from a meaningfully darker sky

Lenexa, KS, about 23 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Lee's Summit. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Lee's Summit compares nationally

Lee's Summit, MO counts roughly 106,419 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Lee's Summit places 1,267 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.