Allouez, WI's night sky, measured from orbit

Allouez's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 33.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Allouez.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

How far Allouez is from a meaningfully darker sky

Hobart, WI, about 7 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Allouez. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Allouez compares nationally

About 13,923 people live in Allouez, WI, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Allouez places 1,066 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.