DarkSkyCheck

Sunny Isles Beach, FL: how dark is the sky here?

Sunny Isles Beach's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 97.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Sunny Isles Beach.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Sunny Isles Beach

West Park, FL, about 5 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Sunny Isles Beach. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Sunny Isles Beach compares nationally

Sunny Isles Beach, FL counts roughly 22,903 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Sunny Isles Beach places 3,119 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.