What the night sky looks like over Sand Springs, OK

Sand Springs's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 30% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Sand Springs.

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 Sand Springs

70 miles from Sand Springs, straight-line, sits Shawnee, OK, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Sand Springs's own suburban edge band.

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

Sand Springs against the rest of the dataset

Sand Springs, OK counts roughly 20,330 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Sand Springs ranks 956 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.