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How dark is the sky in Valencian Community?

Sky darkness for 14 towns and parks in Valencian Community, 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 Tinença de Benifassà Natural Park (21.45, Bortle 4), the brightest Valencia (18.01, Bortle 8). Milky Way season in Valencian Community runs March to September: on moonless nights the bright core stands clear of the horizon, climbing to about 23° 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 Valencian Community with every place marked

Darkest skies in Valencian Community

  1. Tinença de Benifassà Natural ParkBortle 421.45
  2. Alto TuriaBortle 421.32

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 Valencian Community

  1. ValenciaBortle 818.01
  2. AlicanteBortle 718.39
  3. TorrentBortle 718.49
  4. EldaBortle 718.53
  5. BenidormBortle 718.56

All 14 places in Valencian Community

Amber names are parks and certified dark-sky places. The figure is the Bortle class: 1 darkest, 9 city center.
Alcoy6Alicante7Alto Turia4Benidorm7Castellón de la Plana7Elche7Elda7Gandia6Orihuela7Sagunto7Tinença de Benifassà Natural Park4Torrent7Torrevieja7Valencia8