Palmetto Bay, FL Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Palmetto Bay, FL
Palmetto Bay reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 45.3% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Palmetto Bay.
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 Bortle scale guide covers why.
The nearest darker sky to Palmetto Bay
17 miles from Palmetto Bay, straight-line, sits Miami Beach, FL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Palmetto Bay's own suburban band.
Miami Beach, FL is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Palmetto Bay against the rest of the dataset
Palmetto Bay, FL has a population of about 25,402, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Palmetto Bay ranks 1,444 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.