St. Matthews, KY Night Sky Brightness
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 - the Bortle scale guide covers why.
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, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.