Mounds View, MN Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Mounds View, MN
Mounds View's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Mounds View's sky is brighter than 49% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.
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 Bortle scale guide covers why.
The nearest darker sky to Mounds View
New Brighton, MN, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Mounds View. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
New Brighton, MN is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Mounds View against the rest of the dataset
Mounds View, MN has a population of about 12,841, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Mounds View ranks 1,563 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.