Sulphur, LA: how dark is the sky here?

Sulphur's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Sulphur's sky is brighter than 90.4% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Sulphur

Orange, TX, about 25 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Sulphur. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Orange, 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 Sulphur compares nationally

Sulphur, LA has a population of about 20,572, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Sulphur places 2,883 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.