Little Elm, TX Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Little Elm, TX?
Satellite radiance puts Little Elm in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 31.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Little Elm.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Little Elm
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Sanger, TX, roughly 19 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.
Sanger, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Little Elm against the rest of the dataset
Little Elm, TX has a population of about 61,219, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Little Elm comes in at 995, darkest to brightest.