Vermillion, SD's night sky, measured from orbit

Vermillion's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Vermillion's sky is brighter than 93% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Vermillion

25 miles from Vermillion, straight-line, sits Yankton, SD, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Vermillion's own urban band.

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

How Vermillion compares nationally

About 11,877 people live in Vermillion, SD, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Vermillion places 2,964 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.