What the night sky looks like over Cambridge, MD

Satellite radiance puts Cambridge in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 14.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Cambridge.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Cambridge

94 miles from Cambridge, straight-line, sits Ocean City, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Cambridge's own suburban edge band.

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

Cambridge against the rest of the dataset

About 13,262 people live in Cambridge, MD, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Cambridge ranks 463 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.