DarkSkyCheck

Mount Pleasant, WI Night Sky Brightness

Mount Pleasant, WI: how dark is the sky here?

Suburban
44.2 nW/cm2/sr

Mount Pleasant's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 84.5% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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 - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.

Where to go for a darker sky near Mount Pleasant

Racine, WI, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Mount Pleasant. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Racine, WI 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, WI has a population of about 28,184, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Mount Pleasant places 2,694 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.