Bay Village, OH's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Bay Village in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 25.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Bay Village.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

How far Bay Village is from a meaningfully darker sky

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

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

How Bay Village compares nationally

Bay Village, OH counts roughly 15,903 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Bay Village places 823 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.