Sartell, MN Night Sky Brightness
Sartell, MN's night sky, measured from orbit
Sartell'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. That's brighter than 22.9% of the 3,206 US 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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
How far Sartell is from a meaningfully darker sky
7 miles from Sartell, straight-line, sits St. Cloud, MN, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Sartell's own suburban edge band.
St. Cloud, MN is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Sartell compares nationally
About 19,979 people live in Sartell, MN, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Sartell's position, 731 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.