Fort Lee, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit

Fort Lee reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 97.6% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

How far Fort Lee is from a meaningfully darker sky

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

Edgewater, 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 Fort Lee compares nationally

Fort Lee, NJ counts roughly 40,566 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Fort Lee places 3,112 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.