Punta Gorda, FL's night sky, measured from orbit

Punta Gorda 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. Only 17.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Punta Gorda.

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

Where to go for a darker sky near Punta Gorda

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is North Port, FL, roughly 14 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

North Port, 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 Punta Gorda compares nationally

About 20,416 people live in Punta Gorda, FL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Punta Gorda places 547 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.