DarkSkyCheck

Providence Village, TX: how dark is the sky here?

Providence Village'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. Providence Village's sky is brighter than 39.6% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Providence Village

Sanger, TX, about 16 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Providence Village. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Providence Village compares nationally

Providence Village, TX counts roughly 10,350 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Providence Village places 1,263 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.