How dark is the sky in Beach Park, IL?

Beach Park reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 6.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Beach Park.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Beach Park

25 miles from Beach Park, straight-line, sits Caledonia, WI, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Beach Park's own rural band.

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

Beach Park against the rest of the dataset

Beach Park, IL has a population of about 14,212, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Beach Park ranks 197 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.