Virginia Beach, VA's night sky, measured from orbit

Virginia Beach'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 94.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Virginia Beach.

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 Virginia Beach

16 miles from Virginia Beach, straight-line, sits Norfolk, VA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Virginia Beach's own urban band.

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

How Virginia Beach compares nationally

About 454,808 people live in Virginia Beach, VA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Virginia Beach places 3,013 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.