DarkSkyCheck

Miami Gardens, FL: how dark is the sky here?

Miami Gardens reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 96.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Miami Gardens.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

Where to go for a darker sky near Miami Gardens

4 miles from Miami Gardens, straight-line, sits West Park, FL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Miami Gardens's own urban band.

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

How Miami Gardens compares nationally

Miami Gardens, FL has a population of about 116,173, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Miami Gardens places 3,084 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.