San Elizario, TX: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts San Elizario in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. San Elizario's sky is brighter than 29.3% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

The nearest darker sky to San Elizario

Carlsbad, NM, about 131 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than San Elizario. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How San Elizario compares nationally

San Elizario, TX has a population of about 10,128, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. San Elizario places 936 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.