Miami Lakes, FL Night Sky Brightness
Miami Lakes, FL's night sky, measured from orbit
Miami Lakes 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 95.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Miami Lakes.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Miami Lakes
Miramar, FL, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Miami Lakes. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Miramar, 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 Lakes compares nationally
Miami Lakes, FL counts roughly 33,247 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Miami Lakes's position, 3,052 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.