Camden, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit

Camden's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 95.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Camden.

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 Camden

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Collingswood, NJ, roughly 2 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

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

How Camden compares nationally

About 71,749 people live in Camden, NJ, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Camden places 3,047 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.