DarkSkyCheck

Robstown, TX Night Sky Brightness

Robstown, TX: how dark is the sky here?

Suburban
26.6 nW/cm2/sr

Robstown's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Robstown's sky is brighter than 59.9% 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 - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.

The nearest darker sky to Robstown

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Portland, TX, roughly 22 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

Portland, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

How Robstown compares nationally

Robstown, TX has a population of about 10,383, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Robstown places 1,911 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.