Yukon, OK's night sky, measured from orbit

Yukon's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Yukon's sky is brighter than 3.9% of the 3,206 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Yukon

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Godfrey, IL, roughly 478 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

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

How Yukon compares nationally

About 27,068 people live in Yukon, OK, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Yukon places 125 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.