What the night sky looks like over Lenexa, KS

Lenexa reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 8.3% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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 Lenexa

246 miles from Lenexa, straight-line, sits Godfrey, IL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Lenexa's own rural band.

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

Lenexa against the rest of the dataset

About 59,427 people live in Lenexa, KS, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Lenexa ranks 264 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.