Little Canada, MN's night sky, measured from orbit

Little Canada's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Little Canada's sky is brighter than 36.6% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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

How far Little Canada is from a meaningfully darker sky

Vadnais Heights, MN, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Little Canada. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Little Canada compares nationally

About 10,590 people live in Little Canada, MN, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Little Canada places 1,171 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.