St. Michael, MN's night sky, measured from orbit

St. Michael's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 5.4% of the 3,206 US 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. Michael

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Otsego, MN, roughly 6 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

Otsego, MN 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. Michael compares nationally

About 21,681 people live in St. Michael, MN, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. St. Michael places 174 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.