North Ogden, UT's night sky, measured from orbit

North Ogden'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 10.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than North Ogden.

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 North Ogden

40 miles from North Ogden, straight-line, sits Magna, UT, the nearest city here with a darker sky than North Ogden's own rural band.

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

How North Ogden compares nationally

About 22,908 people live in North Ogden, UT, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. North Ogden places 333 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.