Provo, UT Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Provo, UT?
Provo reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 89.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Provo.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
How far Provo is from a meaningfully darker sky
Springville, UT, about 6 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Provo. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Springville, UT is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Provo against the rest of the dataset
Provo, UT has a population of about 115,479, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Provo comes in at 2,856, darkest to brightest.