What the night sky looks like over Ormond Beach, FL

Satellite radiance puts Ormond Beach in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 6.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Ormond Beach.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

The nearest darker sky to Ormond Beach

Leesburg, FL, about 63 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Ormond Beach. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Ormond Beach against the rest of the dataset

Ormond Beach, FL has a population of about 44,596, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Ormond Beach ranks 212 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.