Ashland, OH's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Ashland in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 88.7% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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

Where to go for a darker sky near Ashland

Mansfield, OH, about 13 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Ashland. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Mansfield, 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 Ashland compares nationally

Ashland, OH counts roughly 18,770 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Ashland places 2,829 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.