St. George, UT's night sky, measured from orbit

St. George's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. St. George's sky is brighter than 23.6% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

The nearest darker sky to St. George

Ivins, UT, about 9 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than St. George. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Ivins, UT 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. George compares nationally

About 106,288 people live in St. George, UT, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. St. George places 754 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.