Pell City, AL: how dark is the sky here?

Pell City reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 14.3% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Pell City.

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 Pell City

Moody, AL, about 14 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Pell City. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Moody, 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 Pell City compares nationally

About 14,094 people live in Pell City, AL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Pell City places 458 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.