Zephyrhills, FL's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Zephyrhills 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. Only 31% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Zephyrhills.

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 Zephyrhills

25 miles from Zephyrhills, straight-line, sits Auburndale, FL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Zephyrhills's own suburban edge band.

Auburndale, 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 Zephyrhills compares nationally

Zephyrhills, FL counts roughly 22,304 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Zephyrhills places 989 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.