Sugar Hill, GA's night sky, measured from orbit

Sugar Hill reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 42.5% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Sugar Hill

17 miles from Sugar Hill, straight-line, sits Milton, GA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Sugar Hill's own suburban edge band.

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

How Sugar Hill compares nationally

Sugar Hill, GA counts roughly 28,598 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Sugar Hill places 1,355 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.