McPherson, KS Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in McPherson, KS?
Satellite radiance puts McPherson in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. McPherson's sky is brighter than 92.3% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to McPherson
25 miles from McPherson, straight-line, sits Hutchinson, KS, the nearest city here with a darker sky than McPherson's own urban band.
Hutchinson, KS is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
McPherson against the rest of the dataset
About 14,068 people live in McPherson, KS, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, McPherson comes in at 2,942, darkest to brightest.