DarkSkyCheck

Easton, MD Night Sky Brightness

What the night sky looks like over Easton, MD

Suburban
28.8 nW/cm2/sr

Satellite radiance puts Easton in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Easton's sky is brighter than 64.7% of the 3,206 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Easton

Cambridge, MD, about 15 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Easton. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Easton against the rest of the dataset

About 17,381 people live in Easton, MD, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Easton ranks 2,063 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.