Grandville, MI: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Grandville in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 17.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Grandville.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Grandville

31 miles from Grandville, straight-line, sits Norton Shores, MI, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Grandville's own suburban edge band.

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

How Grandville compares nationally

Grandville, MI counts roughly 17,094 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Grandville places 554 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.