Binghamton, NY's night sky, measured from orbit

Binghamton's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 89% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

How far Binghamton is from a meaningfully darker sky

3 miles from Binghamton, straight-line, sits Johnson City, NY, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Binghamton's own urban band.

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

How Binghamton compares nationally

Binghamton, NY counts roughly 46,773 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Binghamton places 2,836 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.