Rockport, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Rockport's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 36.1% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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 Rockport

145 miles from Rockport, straight-line, sits Helotes, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Rockport's own suburban edge band.

Helotes, 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 Rockport compares nationally

Rockport, TX counts roughly 11,069 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Rockport places 1,153 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.