Nashville-Davidson, TN Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Nashville-Davidson, TN?
Satellite radiance puts Nashville-Davidson in the inner-city band. Among the brightest skies in this dataset. Usually just the Moon and a few of the brightest stars or planets cut through. Only 99.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Nashville-Davidson.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Nashville-Davidson
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Goodlettsville, TN, roughly 12 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.
Goodlettsville, TN is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Nashville-Davidson against the rest of the dataset
Nashville-Davidson, TN counts roughly 704,963 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Nashville-Davidson comes in at 3,169, darkest to brightest.