What the night sky looks like over Margate, FL

Margate reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 65.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Margate.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Margate

Davie, FL, about 12 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Margate. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Margate against the rest of the dataset

Margate, FL has a population of about 60,650, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Margate ranks 2,079 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.