DarkSkyCheck

Spring Hill, KS Night Sky Brightness

What the night sky looks like over Spring Hill, KS

Suburban
21.1 nW/cm2/sr

Spring Hill's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 47.2% 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 - the Bortle scale guide covers why.

The nearest darker sky to Spring Hill

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Gardner, KS, roughly 6 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

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

Spring Hill against the rest of the dataset

Spring Hill, KS has a population of about 10,070, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Spring Hill ranks 1,505 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.