Saginaw, MI's night sky, measured from orbit

Saginaw's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 66.4% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Saginaw

Midland, MI, about 20 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Saginaw. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Saginaw compares nationally

About 43,001 people live in Saginaw, MI, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Saginaw places 2,117 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.