What the night sky looks like over St. Matthews, KY

Satellite radiance puts St. Matthews in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 93.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than St. Matthews.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near St. Matthews

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Lyndon, KY, roughly 3 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

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

St. Matthews against the rest of the dataset

St. Matthews, KY has a population of about 17,806, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, St. Matthews ranks 2,983 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.