Port Orange, FL: how dark is the sky here?

Port Orange's sky measures suburban edge here. 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 28.8% of the 3,206 US 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Port Orange

New Smyrna Beach, FL, about 7 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Port Orange. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

New Smyrna Beach, 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 Port Orange compares nationally

Port Orange, FL has a population of about 66,556, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Port Orange places 918 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.