Leesburg, VA's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Leesburg in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 87.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Leesburg.

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 Leesburg

Herndon, VA, about 13 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Leesburg. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Leesburg compares nationally

About 49,831 people live in Leesburg, VA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Leesburg places 2,800 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.