Wheat Ridge, CO Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Wheat Ridge, CO?
Satellite radiance puts Wheat Ridge in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 40.8% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Wheat Ridge
5 miles from Wheat Ridge, straight-line, sits Arvada, CO, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Wheat Ridge's own suburban edge band.
Arvada, CO is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Wheat Ridge against the rest of the dataset
Wheat Ridge, CO has a population of about 31,999, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Wheat Ridge comes in at 1,300, darkest to brightest.