DarkSkyCheck

Southlake, TX: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Southlake in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 55.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Southlake.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Southlake

6 miles from Southlake, straight-line, sits Flower Mound, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Southlake's own suburban band.

Flower Mound, 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 Southlake compares nationally

About 31,500 people live in Southlake, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Southlake places 1,779 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.