Mineral Wells, TX: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Mineral Wells in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 6.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Mineral Wells.

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 Mineral Wells

Los Lunas, NM, about 518 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Mineral Wells. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Mineral Wells compares nationally

About 15,688 people live in Mineral Wells, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Mineral Wells places 209 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.