Sugar Land, TX: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Sugar Land in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Sugar Land's sky is brighter than 97.3% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

How far Sugar Land is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Missouri City, TX, roughly 6 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

Missouri City, TX 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 Land compares nationally

Sugar Land, TX counts roughly 109,851 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Sugar Land places 3,103 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.