DarkSkyCheck

Spanish Fort, AL Night Sky Brightness

How dark is the sky in Spanish Fort, AL?

Dark sky
1.1 nW/cm2/sr

Satellite radiance puts Spanish Fort in the dark sky band. Among the darkest skies of any US city in this dataset. The Milky Way should be visible overhead on clear, moonless nights. That's brighter than 0.4% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.

Spanish Fort is already about as dark as this dataset gets

Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than Spanish Fort. That doesn't mean nowhere is darker, unincorporated land and wilderness aren't part of this dataset at all, only incorporated cities of 10,000 people or more.

Spanish Fort against the rest of the dataset

About 11,118 people live in Spanish Fort, AL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Spanish Fort comes in at 15, darkest to brightest.