Framingham, MA's night sky, measured from orbit

Framingham reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 11% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Framingham.

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 Framingham

Fitchburg, MA, about 28 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Framingham. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Framingham compares nationally

Framingham, MA counts roughly 73,361 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Framingham places 353 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.