Mauldin, SC's night sky, measured from orbit

Mauldin's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 76.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Mauldin.

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

How far Mauldin is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Fountain Inn, SC, roughly 8 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

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

How Mauldin compares nationally

Mauldin, SC has a population of about 29,746, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Mauldin places 2,427 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.