Palm Coast, FL Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Palm Coast, FL?
Palm Coast's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 7.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Palm Coast.
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.
How far Palm Coast is from a meaningfully darker sky
Leesburg, FL, about 69 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Palm Coast. 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.
Palm Coast against the rest of the dataset
Palm Coast, FL has a population of about 106,729, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Palm Coast comes in at 246, darkest to brightest.