Buffalo Grove, IL's night sky, measured from orbit

Buffalo Grove 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. Buffalo Grove's sky is brighter than 41.9% of the 3,206 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.

The nearest darker sky to Buffalo Grove

12 miles from Buffalo Grove, straight-line, sits Wauconda, IL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Buffalo Grove's own suburban edge band.

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

How Buffalo Grove compares nationally

About 43,072 people live in Buffalo Grove, IL, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Buffalo Grove places 1,337 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.