Amesbury, MA: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Amesbury in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 4% 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 Amesbury

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Fitchburg, MA, roughly 47 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

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

How Amesbury compares nationally

Amesbury, MA counts roughly 17,617 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Amesbury places 127 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.