Nixa, MO's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Nixa in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Nixa's sky is brighter than 71.8% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

The nearest darker sky to Nixa

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

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

How Nixa compares nationally

Nixa, MO counts roughly 26,352 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Nixa places 2,290 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.