Alliance, OH: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Alliance in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 18.3% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Alliance

New Franklin, OH, about 24 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Alliance. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

New Franklin, 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 Alliance compares nationally

About 21,523 people live in Alliance, OH, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Alliance places 585 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.