Fort Lee, NJ Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 3,112 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.