Mount Dora, FL's night sky, measured from orbit

Mount Dora 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. Mount Dora's sky is brighter than 32.3% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

How far Mount Dora is from a meaningfully darker sky

Tavares, FL, about 8 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Mount Dora. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Tavares, 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 Mount Dora compares nationally

Mount Dora, FL counts roughly 18,261 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Mount Dora places 1,030 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.