How dark is the sky in Rainbow City, AL?

Satellite radiance puts Rainbow City in the dark sky band. Among the darkest skies of any US city in this dataset. The Milky Way should be visible overhead on clear, moonless nights. Only 1.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Rainbow City.

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.

Rainbow City is already about as dark as this dataset gets

Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than Rainbow City. That doesn't mean nowhere is darker, unincorporated land and wilderness aren't part of this dataset at all, only incorporated cities of 10,000 people or more.

Rainbow City against the rest of the dataset

Rainbow City, AL has a population of about 10,349, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Rainbow City ranks 36 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.