Elizabeth, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit

Elizabeth's sky measures inner-city here. Among the brightest skies in this dataset. Usually just the Moon and a few of the brightest stars or planets cut through. Only 99.3% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Elizabeth.

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 Elizabeth

4 miles from Elizabeth, straight-line, sits Linden, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Elizabeth's own inner-city band.

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

How Elizabeth compares nationally

Elizabeth, NJ has a population of about 140,413, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Elizabeth places 3,166 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.