What the night sky looks like over North Branch, MN

North Branch'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. Only 5.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than North Branch.

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 North Branch

17 miles from North Branch, straight-line, sits East Bethel, MN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than North Branch's own rural band.

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

North Branch against the rest of the dataset

North Branch, MN has a population of about 12,258, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, North Branch ranks 164 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.