The Colony, TX: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts The Colony in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 22.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than The Colony.

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.

How far The Colony is from a meaningfully darker sky

Northlake, TX, about 20 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than The Colony. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Northlake, 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 The Colony compares nationally

The Colony, TX counts roughly 45,897 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. The Colony places 720 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.