DarkSkyCheck

Red Wing, MN: how dark is the sky here?

Red Wing reads as dark sky on this dataset's scale. Among the darkest skies of any US city in this dataset. The Milky Way should be visible overhead on clear, moonless nights. Red Wing's sky is brighter than 1.7% 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.

Red Wing is already about as dark as this dataset gets

Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than Red Wing. 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.

How Red Wing compares nationally

Red Wing, MN counts roughly 16,788 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Red Wing places 55 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.