What the night sky looks like over Chesapeake, VA

Satellite radiance puts Chesapeake in the dark sky band. Among the darkest skies of any US city in this dataset. The Milky Way should be visible overhead on clear, moonless nights. Chesapeake's sky is brighter than 0.8% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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.

Chesapeake is already about as dark as this dataset gets

Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than Chesapeake. That doesn't mean nowhere is darker, unincorporated land and wilderness aren't part of this dataset at all, only incorporated cities of 10,000 people or more.

Chesapeake against the rest of the dataset

About 254,997 people live in Chesapeake, VA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Chesapeake ranks 27 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.