What the night sky looks like over San Juan, TX

Satellite radiance puts San Juan in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 83.9% of the 3,206 US 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.

How far San Juan is from a meaningfully darker sky

Pharr, TX, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than San Juan. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Pharr, 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 Juan against the rest of the dataset

About 37,341 people live in San Juan, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, San Juan ranks 2,676 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.