Cliffside Park, NJ: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Cliffside Park 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 92.1% 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.

How far Cliffside Park is from a meaningfully darker sky

under a mile from Cliffside Park, straight-line, sits Edgewater, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Cliffside Park's own urban band.

Edgewater, 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 Cliffside Park compares nationally

Cliffside Park, NJ counts roughly 26,183 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Cliffside Park places 2,936 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.