Montgomery, AL: how dark is the sky here?

Montgomery 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 41.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Montgomery.

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.

How far Montgomery is from a meaningfully darker sky

Pike Road, AL, about 10 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Montgomery. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Montgomery compares nationally

Montgomery, AL counts roughly 195,818 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Montgomery places 1,324 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.