DarkSkyCheck

Woods Cross, UT Night Sky Brightness

Woods Cross, UT's night sky, measured from orbit

Suburban edge
16.6 nW/cm2/sr

Woods Cross reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 33.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Woods Cross.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Woods Cross

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Magna, UT, roughly 16 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

Magna, UT is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

How Woods Cross compares nationally

Woods Cross, UT counts roughly 11,493 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Woods Cross's position, 1,059 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.