DarkSkyCheck

Snellville, GA Night Sky Brightness

Snellville, GA: how dark is the sky here?

Suburban
39.1 nW/cm2/sr

Snellville reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 79.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Snellville.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.

The nearest darker sky to Snellville

Loganville, GA, about 7 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Snellville. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Snellville compares nationally

Snellville, GA has a population of about 22,336, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Snellville places 2,549 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.