Sarasota, FL's night sky, measured from orbit

Sarasota's sky measures inner-city here. Among the brightest skies in this dataset. Usually just the Moon and a few of the brightest stars or planets cut through. Sarasota's sky is brighter than 99.3% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

The nearest darker sky to Sarasota

11 miles from Sarasota, straight-line, sits Bradenton, FL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Sarasota's own inner-city band.

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

How Sarasota compares nationally

Sarasota, FL has a population of about 57,764, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Sarasota places 3,167 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.