Baldwin, PA's night sky, measured from orbit

Baldwin reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Baldwin's sky is brighter than 17.1% of the 3,206 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.

The nearest darker sky to Baldwin

Jefferson Hills, PA, about 6 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Baldwin. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Baldwin compares nationally

Baldwin, PA has a population of about 20,712, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Baldwin places 545 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.