Pharr, TX Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Pharr, TX?
Satellite radiance puts Pharr in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 42.2% of the 3,206 US 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.
Where to go for a darker sky near Pharr
53 miles from Pharr, straight-line, sits Roma, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Pharr's own suburban edge band.
Roma, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Pharr against the rest of the dataset
Pharr, TX has a population of about 81,142, 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, Pharr comes in at 1,345, darkest to brightest.