Mankato, MN's night sky, measured from orbit

Mankato's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 71% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Mankato.

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

The nearest darker sky to Mankato

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Faribault, MN, roughly 36 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

Faribault, 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 Mankato compares nationally

Mankato, MN has a population of about 46,459, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Mankato places 2,264 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.