Bethel Park, PA: how dark is the sky here?

Bethel Park 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. Bethel Park's sky is brighter than 40.6% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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.

How far Bethel Park is from a meaningfully darker sky

5 miles from Bethel Park, straight-line, sits Jefferson Hills, PA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Bethel Park's own suburban edge band.

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

How Bethel Park compares nationally

About 32,376 people live in Bethel Park, PA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Bethel Park places 1,296 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.