Atlantic City, NJ Night Sky Brightness
Atlantic City, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit
Atlantic City'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 39.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Atlantic City.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
How far Atlantic City is from a meaningfully darker sky
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Ocean City, NJ, roughly 11 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.
Ocean City, NJ is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Atlantic City compares nationally
About 38,959 people live in Atlantic City, NJ, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Atlantic City's position, 1,261 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.