Franklin Lakes, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit

Franklin Lakes reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Franklin Lakes's sky is brighter than 16.3% of the 3,206 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Franklin Lakes

7 miles from Franklin Lakes, straight-line, sits Ringwood, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Franklin Lakes's own suburban edge band.

Ringwood, 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 Franklin Lakes compares nationally

About 11,251 people live in Franklin Lakes, NJ, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Franklin Lakes places 519 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.