What the night sky looks like over Franklin Park, IL

Satellite radiance puts Franklin Park in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Franklin Park's sky is brighter than 87.7% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

How far Franklin Park is from a meaningfully darker sky

3 miles from Franklin Park, straight-line, sits Elmwood Park, IL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Franklin Park's own urban band.

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

Franklin Park against the rest of the dataset

Franklin Park, IL has a population of about 18,110, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Franklin Park ranks 2,795 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.