DarkSkyCheck

Wilton Manors, FL Night Sky Brightness

Wilton Manors, FL's night sky, measured from orbit

Urban
53.3 nW/cm2/sr

Satellite radiance puts Wilton Manors in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 91.1% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.

The nearest darker sky to Wilton Manors

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is North Lauderdale, FL, roughly 6 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

North Lauderdale, 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 Wilton Manors compares nationally

About 11,788 people live in Wilton Manors, FL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Wilton Manors's position, 2,905 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.