What the night sky looks like over Salt Lake City, UT

Salt Lake City reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Salt Lake City's sky is brighter than 92% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Salt Lake City

7 miles from Salt Lake City, straight-line, sits Woods Cross, UT, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Salt Lake City's own urban band.

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

Salt Lake City against the rest of the dataset

Salt Lake City, UT counts roughly 217,783 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Salt Lake City ranks 2,932 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.