Orange City, FL's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Orange City in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 21.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Orange City.

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 Orange City

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is DeBary, FL, roughly 5 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

How Orange City compares nationally

Orange City, FL counts roughly 15,257 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Orange City places 690 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.