Plantation, FL: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Plantation in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Plantation's sky is brighter than 95.8% 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.

How far Plantation is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Davie, FL, roughly 3 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

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

How Plantation compares nationally

Plantation, FL has a population of about 100,694, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Plantation places 3,053 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.