Madison, AL Night Sky Brightness
Madison, AL's night sky, measured from orbit
Madison'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. Only 15% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Madison.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Madison
41 miles from Madison, straight-line, sits Scottsboro, AL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Madison's own suburban edge band.
Scottsboro, AL is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Madison compares nationally
About 64,029 people live in Madison, AL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Madison's position, 480 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.