Thomasville, GA's night sky, measured from orbit

Thomasville reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Thomasville's sky is brighter than 87.1% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

How far Thomasville is from a meaningfully darker sky

26 miles from Thomasville, straight-line, sits Moultrie, GA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Thomasville's own urban band.

Moultrie, 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 Thomasville compares nationally

Thomasville, GA counts roughly 18,604 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Thomasville places 2,779 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.