East Grand Rapids, MI's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts East Grand Rapids in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. East Grand Rapids's sky is brighter than 22.5% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

The nearest darker sky to East Grand Rapids

35 miles from East Grand Rapids, straight-line, sits Norton Shores, MI, the nearest city here with a darker sky than East Grand Rapids's own suburban edge band.

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

How East Grand Rapids compares nationally

About 11,616 people live in East Grand Rapids, MI, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. East Grand Rapids places 718 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.