What the night sky looks like over Bel Air, MD

Bel Air's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 90.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Bel Air.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

Where to go for a darker sky near Bel Air

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Aberdeen, MD, roughly 9 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

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

Bel Air against the rest of the dataset

About 10,395 people live in Bel Air, MD, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Bel Air ranks 2,890 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.