Riviera Beach, FL: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Riviera Beach in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 88.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Riviera Beach.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Riviera Beach

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is North Palm Beach, FL, roughly 3 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

North Palm Beach, 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 Riviera Beach compares nationally

Riviera Beach, FL counts roughly 39,620 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Riviera Beach places 2,821 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.