Easthampton, MA: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Easthampton 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. Easthampton's sky is brighter than 26.2% 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 Easthampton

Holyoke, MA, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Easthampton. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Easthampton compares nationally

Easthampton, MA counts roughly 16,020 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Easthampton places 836 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.