What the night sky looks like over Mont Belvieu, TX

Mont Belvieu reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 24.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Mont Belvieu.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

The nearest darker sky to Mont Belvieu

29 miles from Mont Belvieu, straight-line, sits Texas City, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Mont Belvieu's own suburban edge band.

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

Mont Belvieu against the rest of the dataset

Mont Belvieu, TX counts roughly 10,229 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Mont Belvieu ranks 792 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.