Long Beach, MS: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Long Beach 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 17.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Long Beach.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Long Beach

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Bay St. Louis, MS, roughly 12 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

How Long Beach compares nationally

Long Beach, MS counts roughly 17,217 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Long Beach places 563 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.