What the night sky looks like over Bellwood, IL

Satellite radiance puts Bellwood in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 89.7% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Bellwood

2 miles from Bellwood, straight-line, sits Maywood, IL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Bellwood's own urban band.

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

Bellwood against the rest of the dataset

Bellwood, IL counts roughly 18,132 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Bellwood ranks 2,859 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.