What the night sky looks like over Mustang, OK

Mustang reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 88.1% of the 3,206 US 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.

How far Mustang is from a meaningfully darker sky

Yukon, OK, about 9 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Mustang. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Mustang against the rest of the dataset

Mustang, OK counts roughly 23,965 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Mustang ranks 2,808 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.