West Palm Beach, FL Night Sky Brightness
West Palm Beach, FL: how dark is the sky here?
Satellite radiance puts West Palm Beach in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 59.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than West Palm Beach.
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 West Palm Beach
Palm Beach Gardens, FL, about 8 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than West Palm Beach. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Palm Beach Gardens, FL is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How West Palm Beach compares nationally
West Palm Beach, FL has a population of about 127,744, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. West Palm Beach places 1,887 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.