What the night sky looks like over Marana, AZ

Marana reads as dark sky on this dataset's scale. Among the darkest skies of any US city in this dataset. The Milky Way should be visible overhead on clear, moonless nights. Only 0.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Marana.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

Marana is already about as dark as this dataset gets

Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than Marana. That doesn't mean nowhere is darker, unincorporated land and wilderness aren't part of this dataset at all, only incorporated cities of 10,000 people or more.

Marana against the rest of the dataset

About 62,380 people live in Marana, AZ, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Marana ranks 30 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.