What the night sky looks like over Bridgeport, CT

Bridgeport'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 93.4% 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 Bridgeport

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Milford, CT, roughly 7 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

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

Bridgeport against the rest of the dataset

Bridgeport, CT has a population of about 151,599, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Bridgeport ranks 2,977 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.