Nacogdoches, TX Night Sky Brightness
Nacogdoches, TX: how dark is the sky here?
Nacogdoches reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 83.3% 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 Nacogdoches
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Palestine, TX, roughly 59 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.
Palestine, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Nacogdoches compares nationally
Nacogdoches, TX counts roughly 32,381 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Nacogdoches places 2,656 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.