Agawam Town, MA Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Agawam Town, MA?
Agawam Town reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Agawam Town's sky is brighter than 11.5% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
How far Agawam Town is from a meaningfully darker sky
Palmer Town, MA, about 20 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Agawam Town. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Palmer Town, MA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Agawam Town against the rest of the dataset
About 28,749 people live in Agawam Town, MA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Agawam Town comes in at 366, darkest to brightest.