St. Louis, MO's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts St. Louis in the inner-city band. Among the brightest skies in this dataset. Usually just the Moon and a few of the brightest stars or planets cut through. Only 99.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than St. Louis.

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

How far St. Louis is from a meaningfully darker sky

5 miles from St. Louis, straight-line, sits Clayton, MO, the nearest city here with a darker sky than St. Louis's own inner-city band.

Clayton, MO 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. Louis compares nationally

St. Louis, MO counts roughly 279,695 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. St. Louis places 3,178 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.