DarkSkyCheck

Oklahoma City, OK Night Sky Brightness

Oklahoma City, OK's night sky, measured from orbit

Inner-city
209.8 nW/cm2/sr

Satellite radiance puts Oklahoma City in the inner-city band. Among the brightest skies in this dataset. Usually just the Moon and a few of the brightest stars or planets cut through. That's brighter than 100% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.

Where to go for a darker sky near Oklahoma City

Del City, OK, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Oklahoma City. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Oklahoma City compares nationally

Oklahoma City, OK has a population of about 712,919, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Oklahoma City's position, 3,187 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.