Depew, NY: how dark is the sky here?

Depew's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Depew's sky is brighter than 25.6% of the 3,206 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.

The nearest darker sky to Depew

101 miles from Depew, straight-line, sits St. Marys, PA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Depew's own suburban edge 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.

How Depew compares nationally

Depew, NY has a population of about 14,910, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Depew places 817 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.