Live Oak, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Live Oak in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Live Oak's sky is brighter than 86.3% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Live Oak

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Universal City, TX, roughly 2 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

Universal City, 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 Live Oak compares nationally

About 16,218 people live in Live Oak, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Live Oak places 2,752 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.