Pompano Beach, FL's night sky, measured from orbit

Pompano Beach's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 94.6% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

The nearest darker sky to Pompano Beach

Lighthouse Point, FL, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Pompano Beach. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Lighthouse Point, 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 Pompano Beach compares nationally

About 118,104 people live in Pompano Beach, FL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Pompano Beach places 3,016 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.