DarkSkyCheck

Cuyahoga Falls, OH Night Sky Brightness

How dark is the sky in Cuyahoga Falls, OH?

Rural
4.8 nW/cm2/sr

Cuyahoga Falls reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 6.7% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.

The nearest darker sky to Cuyahoga Falls

158 miles from Cuyahoga Falls, straight-line, sits St. Marys, PA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Cuyahoga Falls's own rural band.

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

Cuyahoga Falls against the rest of the dataset

About 50,979 people live in Cuyahoga Falls, OH, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Cuyahoga Falls comes in at 216, darkest to brightest.