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How dark is the sky in Šibenik-Knin?

Sky darkness for 3 towns and parks in Šibenik-Knin, worked out from NASA satellite images of light at night (2025). 2 of them have skies of Bortle 4 or darker, where the Milky Way shows overhead. The darkest is Dinara Nature Park (21.60, Bortle 4), the brightest Šibenik (19.52, Bortle 5). Milky Way season in Šibenik-Knin runs April to August: on moonless nights the bright core stands clear of the horizon, climbing to about 17° at its highest.

19 Bortle class, 1 pristine to 9 city center park or dark-sky place city

Numbers like 21.95 or 16.97 are the brightness of the sky overhead on a clear, moonless night, in mag/arcsec². The scale runs backwards: a lower number means a brighter sky, from about 22 for a natural sky to about 17 in a city center.
How the readings are made

NASA satellite night-lights map of Šibenik-Knin with every place marked

Darkest skies in Šibenik-Knin

  1. Dinara Nature ParkBortle 421.60
  2. Krka National ParkBortle 420.95

Among the places on this site. Plenty of land between them is just as dark, with no town or park to name it by.

Brightest city skies in Šibenik-Knin

  1. ŠibenikBortle 519.52

All 3 places in Šibenik-Knin

Amber names are parks and certified dark-sky places. The figure is the Bortle class: 1 darkest, 9 city center.
Dinara Nature Park4Krka National Park4Šibenik5