Smithfield, UT's night sky, measured from orbit

Smithfield 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. Smithfield's sky is brighter than 12.3% 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.

How far Smithfield is from a meaningfully darker sky

Magna, UT, about 77 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Smithfield. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Smithfield compares nationally

Smithfield, UT has a population of about 15,018, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Smithfield places 392 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.