How dark is the sky in Tulsa, OK?

Tulsa'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 87.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Tulsa.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Tulsa

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Broken Arrow, OK, roughly 9 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

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

Tulsa against the rest of the dataset

Tulsa, OK counts roughly 415,154 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Tulsa ranks 2,802 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.