Suwanee, GA Night Sky Brightness
Suwanee, GA's night sky, measured from orbit
Satellite radiance puts Suwanee in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 45.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Suwanee.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Suwanee
Sugar Hill, GA, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Suwanee. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Sugar Hill, 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 Suwanee compares nationally
Suwanee, GA has a population of about 23,062, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Suwanee's position, 1,453 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.