Light pollution in Afghanistan

5 cities · estimated Bortle class at each city centre

1 of 5 cities read Bortle 8–9 · 3 of 5 cities read Bortle 7–8 · 1 of 5 cities read Bortle 6–7. The darkest city centre on the list is Kandahār (Bortle 6–7).

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Cities, brightest first

#	City	Bortle (est.)	Brightness	2 classes darker
1	Kabul	8–9	255	~25 km SW
2	Mazār-e Sharīf	7–8	255	~25 km ESE
3	Herāt	7–8	250	~25 km N
4	Jalālābād	7–8	253	~25 km NNE
5	Kandahār	6–7	183	not within 90 km

Brightness is the NASA VIIRS Black Marble 2016 value at the city centre on a 0–255 scale; 255 is saturated. Cities are ordered by estimated sky brightness, which also counts the light within 30 km.