Nighttime photography is tricky. Lighting conditions can change from one photo to the next depending on how much light there is. You can be somewhere where it's dark, but have something change the lighting like say car headlights from a nearby street. On cloudy nights, they can change the lighting, too, since clouds reflect light from the ground. So if it's a night where it's partly cloudy where there are gaps in the clouds, and they're zipping past and from one shot to the next you might have clouds in one and none or few in the other. That can change the lighting since clouds reflect light.
Usually I set up my tripod and shoot with an aperture of around F4 to F5, and then I set the shutter speed between 2 and 4 seconds. Really there is no exact setting that will work for all lighting conditions, even at night. You really just have to find a range and work within it to find the best setting.
You might also have a nighttime setting on your camera that will let you shoot different scenes. Sometimes nighttime photography isn't dark like a skyline shot in a park, sometimes it's pretty bright like on a sidewalk on Congress with car headlights, street and traffic lights, or looking at something like store windows or neon lights.
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