Baltimore, MD: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Baltimore in the inner-city band. Among the brightest skies in this dataset. Usually just the Moon and a few of the brightest stars or planets cut through. Only 99.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Baltimore.

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 Baltimore

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Laurel, MD, roughly 20 miles away in a straight line, rated urban. Road distance will be more.

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

How Baltimore compares nationally

Baltimore, MD has a population of about 568,271, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Baltimore places 3,186 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.