What the night sky looks like over North Miami Beach, FL

North Miami Beach reads as inner-city on this dataset's scale. Among the brightest skies in this dataset. Usually just the Moon and a few of the brightest stars or planets cut through. North Miami Beach's sky is brighter than 99.1% 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 North Miami Beach

North Miami, FL, about 2 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the urban band, one step darker than North Miami Beach. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

North Miami Beach against the rest of the dataset

About 45,655 people live in North Miami Beach, FL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, North Miami Beach ranks 3,158 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.