Augusta, ME: how dark is the sky here?

Augusta reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 2.7% 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 Augusta

Westbrook, ME, about 53 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Augusta. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Augusta compares nationally

About 19,168 people live in Augusta, ME, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Augusta places 86 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.