St. Clair Shores, MI: how dark is the sky here?
St. Clair Shores reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 56.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than St. Clair Shores.
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 St. Clair Shores
4 miles from St. Clair Shores, straight-line, sits Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, the nearest city here with a darker sky than St. Clair Shores's own suburban band.
Grosse Pointe Woods, MI is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How St. Clair Shores compares nationally
St. Clair Shores, MI counts roughly 58,077 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. St. Clair Shores places 1,809 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.