What the night sky looks like over Lisbon, WI

Satellite radiance puts Lisbon in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 3.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Lisbon.

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.

How far Lisbon is from a meaningfully darker sky

21 miles from Lisbon, straight-line, sits Muskego, WI, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Lisbon's own rural band.

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

Lisbon against the rest of the dataset

Lisbon, WI has a population of about 11,127, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Lisbon ranks 122 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.