Barnstable Town, MA Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Barnstable Town, MA?
Barnstable Town's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 2.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Barnstable Town.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
How far Barnstable Town is from a meaningfully darker sky
38 miles from Barnstable Town, straight-line, sits Fall River, MA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Barnstable Town's own rural band.
Fall River, MA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Barnstable Town against the rest of the dataset
Barnstable Town, MA counts roughly 49,831 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Barnstable Town comes in at 92, darkest to brightest.