Light pollution in Yemen

6 cities · estimated Bortle class at each city centre

2 of 6 cities read Bortle 7–8 · 2 of 6 cities read Bortle 6–7 · 2 of 6 cities read Bortle 5–6. The darkest city centre on the list is Ibb (Bortle 5–6).

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Cities, brightest first

#	City	Bortle (est.)	Brightness	2 classes darker
1	Mukalla	7–8	255	~25 km ESE
2	Al Ḩudaydah	7–8	236	~25 km WSW
3	Sanaa	6–7	177	not within 90 km
4	Aden	6–7	195	~25 km SSE
5	Taiz	5–6	56	~90 km W
6	Ibb	5–6	59	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.