Florham Park, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit

Florham Park's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 22.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Florham Park.

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 Florham Park

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Kinnelon, NJ, roughly 14 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

Kinnelon, 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 Florham Park compares nationally

Florham Park, NJ has a population of about 14,533, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Florham Park places 730 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.