Germantown, WI's night sky, measured from orbit

Germantown 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 11.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Germantown.

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

How far Germantown is from a meaningfully darker sky

Muskego, WI, about 25 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Germantown. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Germantown compares nationally

Germantown, WI has a population of about 21,032, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Germantown places 379 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.