What the night sky looks like over Sahuarita, AZ

Sahuarita reads as dark sky on this dataset's scale. Among the darkest skies of any US city in this dataset. The Milky Way should be visible overhead on clear, moonless nights. Sahuarita's sky is brighter than 0.5% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

Sahuarita is already about as dark as this dataset gets

Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than Sahuarita. That doesn't mean nowhere is darker, unincorporated land and wilderness aren't part of this dataset at all, only incorporated cities of 10,000 people or more.

Sahuarita against the rest of the dataset

Sahuarita, AZ has a population of about 37,448, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Sahuarita ranks 18 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.