Bayonne, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Bayonne 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. That's brighter than 99.1% of the 3,206 US 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Bayonne

6 miles from Bayonne, straight-line, sits Kearny, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Bayonne's own inner-city band.

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

How Bayonne compares nationally

Bayonne, NJ has a population of about 74,532, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Bayonne places 3,160 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.