Elmwood Park, NJ: how dark is the sky here?

Elmwood Park's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Elmwood Park's sky is brighter than 86.7% 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 Elmwood Park

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Garfield, NJ, roughly 2 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

Garfield, 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 Elmwood Park compares nationally

Elmwood Park, NJ counts roughly 21,680 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Elmwood Park places 2,765 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.