DarkSkyCheck

Ogden, UT: how dark is the sky here?

Ogden reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 96.2% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

How far Ogden is from a meaningfully darker sky

4 miles from Ogden, straight-line, sits South Ogden, UT, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Ogden's own urban band.

South Ogden, 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 Ogden compares nationally

About 88,656 people live in Ogden, UT, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Ogden places 3,068 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.