Watauga, TX Night Sky Brightness
Watauga, TX: how dark is the sky here?
Satellite radiance puts Watauga in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Watauga's sky is brighter than 44.8% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.
This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.
The nearest darker sky to Watauga
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Northlake, TX, roughly 14 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.
Northlake, 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 Watauga compares nationally
Watauga, TX has a population of about 23,120, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Watauga places 1,430 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.