Mount Pleasant, SC's night sky, measured from orbit

Mount Pleasant reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Mount Pleasant's sky is brighter than 62.7% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Mount Pleasant

Charleston, SC, about 6 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Mount Pleasant. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Charleston, SC 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 Pleasant compares nationally

Mount Pleasant, SC has a population of about 95,604, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Mount Pleasant places 1,999 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.