Akron, OH: how dark is the sky here?

Akron reads as inner-city on this dataset's scale. Among the brightest skies in this dataset. Usually just the Moon and a few of the brightest stars or planets cut through. That's brighter than 99.5% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

The nearest darker sky to Akron

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Tallmadge, OH, roughly 5 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

Tallmadge, OH is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

How Akron compares nationally

About 189,664 people live in Akron, OH, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Akron places 3,171 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.