DarkSkyCheck

Bellevue, WI: how dark is the sky here?

Bellevue reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 35.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Bellevue.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

Where to go for a darker sky near Bellevue

10 miles from Bellevue, straight-line, sits Hobart, WI, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Bellevue's own suburban edge band.

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

How Bellevue compares nationally

Bellevue, WI has a population of about 16,749, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Bellevue places 1,129 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.