Texarkana, TX Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Texarkana, TX?
Satellite radiance puts Texarkana in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 87.8% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Texarkana
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Texarkana, AR, roughly 6 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.
Texarkana, AR is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Texarkana against the rest of the dataset
Texarkana, TX counts roughly 35,971 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Texarkana comes in at 2,801, darkest to brightest.