What the night sky looks like over South Miami, FL

Satellite radiance puts South Miami in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 85.9% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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.

How far South Miami is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Coral Gables, FL, roughly 3 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

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

South Miami against the rest of the dataset

South Miami, FL has a population of about 13,207, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, South Miami ranks 2,740 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.