Pasadena, TX Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Pasadena, TX?
Pasadena reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Pasadena's sky is brighter than 98.1% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.
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.
The nearest darker sky to Pasadena
3 miles from Pasadena, straight-line, sits Deer Park, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Pasadena's own urban band.
Deer Park, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Pasadena against the rest of the dataset
Pasadena, TX has a population of about 149,617, 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, Pasadena comes in at 3,128, darkest to brightest.