Panama City, FL: how dark is the sky here?

Panama City'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. Panama City's sky is brighter than 5.5% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

Where to go for a darker sky near Panama City

Spanish Fort, AL, about 143 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Panama City. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Panama City compares nationally

About 37,024 people live in Panama City, FL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Panama City places 176 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.