What the night sky looks like over San Angelo, TX

San Angelo reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 72.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than San Angelo.

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.

How far San Angelo is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Sweetwater, TX, roughly 71 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

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

San Angelo against the rest of the dataset

About 100,159 people live in San Angelo, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, San Angelo ranks 2,302 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.