Royse City, TX Night Sky Brightness
Royse City, TX's night sky, measured from orbit
Royse City'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. Royse City's sky is brighter than 15% of the 3,206 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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Royse City
42 miles from Royse City, straight-line, sits Red Oak, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Royse City's own suburban edge band.
Red Oak, 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 Royse City compares nationally
Royse City, TX has a population of about 26,387, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Royse City's position, 478 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.