Oakland Park, FL Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Oakland Park, FL?
Satellite radiance puts Oakland Park in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 92.9% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Oakland Park
5 miles from Oakland Park, straight-line, sits North Lauderdale, FL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Oakland Park's own urban band.
North Lauderdale, FL is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Oakland Park against the rest of the dataset
About 45,771 people live in Oakland Park, FL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Oakland Park comes in at 2,961, darkest to brightest.