Port St. Lucie, FL's night sky, measured from orbit

Port St. Lucie 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. Port St. Lucie's sky is brighter than 17.6% of the 3,206 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.

How far Port St. Lucie is from a meaningfully darker sky

Palm Beach Gardens, FL, about 33 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Port St. Lucie. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Palm Beach Gardens, 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 St. Lucie compares nationally

Port St. Lucie, FL counts roughly 258,575 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Port St. Lucie places 562 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.