What the night sky looks like over New Smyrna Beach, FL

New Smyrna Beach's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. New Smyrna Beach's sky is brighter than 8% of the 3,206 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.

The nearest darker sky to New Smyrna Beach

Cocoa Beach, FL, about 52 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than New Smyrna Beach. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

New Smyrna Beach against the rest of the dataset

New Smyrna Beach, FL counts roughly 33,144 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, New Smyrna Beach ranks 256 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.