Leon Valley, TX Night Sky Brightness
Leon Valley, TX: how dark is the sky here?
Leon Valley 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 63.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Leon Valley.
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 - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.
How far Leon Valley is from a meaningfully darker sky
7 miles from Leon Valley, straight-line, sits Helotes, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Leon Valley's own suburban band.
Helotes, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Leon Valley compares nationally
Leon Valley, TX has a population of about 11,424, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Leon Valley places 2,036 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.