What the night sky looks like over College Park, MD

Satellite radiance puts College 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 93.1% of the 3,206 US 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.

How far College Park is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Hyattsville, MD, roughly 3 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

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

College Park against the rest of the dataset

About 34,667 people live in College Park, MD, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, College Park ranks 2,967 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.