Show Low, AZ Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Show Low, AZ
Show Low reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 2.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Show Low.
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 Bortle scale guide covers why.
How far Show Low is from a meaningfully darker sky
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Florence, AZ, roughly 114 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.
Florence, AZ is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Show Low against the rest of the dataset
Show Low, AZ has a population of about 12,366, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Show Low ranks 96 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.