East Cleveland, OH Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over East Cleveland, OH
East Cleveland's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 80.1% 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 - the Bortle scale guide covers why.
How far East Cleveland is from a meaningfully darker sky
4 miles from East Cleveland, straight-line, sits Richmond Heights, OH, the nearest city here with a darker sky than East Cleveland's own suburban band.
Richmond Heights, OH is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
East Cleveland against the rest of the dataset
East Cleveland, OH has a population of about 13,402, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, East Cleveland ranks 2,554 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.