Waco, TX's night sky, measured from orbit

Waco's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 15.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Waco.

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 Waco

8 miles from Waco, straight-line, sits Robinson, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Waco's own suburban edge band.

Robinson, 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 Waco compares nationally

About 146,608 people live in Waco, TX, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Waco places 485 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.