Buffalo, NY: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Buffalo 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 93.9% of the 3,206 US 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Buffalo

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Kenmore, NY, roughly 5 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

Kenmore, 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 Buffalo compares nationally

About 276,617 people live in Buffalo, NY, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Buffalo places 2,993 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.