By city

Stargazing near you

An in-depth page for each city: how dark its sky really is, which direction to drive to leave the glow behind and roughly how far, the nearest certified dark-sky places worth the trip, and a live seven-night forecast for the city's own sky — plus a dark-sky calendar you can subscribe to and five years of clear-night statistics. Every number is computed for that city; nothing is a template with the figures swapped. See how the cities compare on the clearest and darkest skies ranking.