Bayonne, NJ Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 3,160 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.