Glendale, WI: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Glendale in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Glendale's sky is brighter than 95% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

How far Glendale is from a meaningfully darker sky

Whitefish Bay, WI, about 2 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Glendale. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Whitefish Bay, 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 Glendale compares nationally

About 14,381 people live in Glendale, WI, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Glendale places 3,030 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.