What the night sky looks like over Stephenville, TX

Stephenville reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 93.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Stephenville.

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 nearest darker sky to Stephenville

Granbury, TX, about 30 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Stephenville. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Stephenville against the rest of the dataset

About 22,147 people live in Stephenville, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Stephenville ranks 2,991 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.