DarkSkyCheck

What the night sky looks like over Sunrise, FL

Sunrise'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 94.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Sunrise.

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.

How far Sunrise is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is North Lauderdale, FL, roughly 4 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

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

Sunrise against the rest of the dataset

Sunrise, FL has a population of about 100,128, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Sunrise ranks 3,022 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.