What the night sky looks like over Hagerstown, MD

Hagerstown reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Hagerstown's sky is brighter than 93.5% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Hagerstown

Waynesboro, PA, about 11 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Hagerstown. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Hagerstown against the rest of the dataset

Hagerstown, MD counts roughly 43,909 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Hagerstown ranks 2,982 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.