Roseville, MN's night sky, measured from orbit

Roseville's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 44.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Roseville.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

The nearest darker sky to Roseville

Little Canada, MN, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Roseville. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Roseville compares nationally

About 35,637 people live in Roseville, MN, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Roseville places 1,418 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.