Canton, OH's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Canton in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Canton's sky is brighter than 91.4% 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.

How far Canton is from a meaningfully darker sky

5 miles from Canton, straight-line, sits North Canton, OH, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Canton's own urban band.

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

How Canton compares nationally

About 69,211 people live in Canton, OH, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Canton places 2,914 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.