South Houston, TX: how dark is the sky here?

South Houston's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 94.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than South Houston.

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.

How far South Houston is from a meaningfully darker sky

6 miles from South Houston, straight-line, sits Galena Park, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than South Houston's own urban band.

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

How South Houston compares nationally

South Houston, TX has a population of about 16,146, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. South Houston places 3,021 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.