DarkSkyCheck

Havre de Grace, MD Night Sky Brightness

Havre de Grace, MD: how dark is the sky here?

Suburban edge
12.7 nW/cm2/sr

Havre de Grace reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Havre de Grace's sky is brighter than 22.9% 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 - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.

Where to go for a darker sky near Havre de Grace

62 miles from Havre de Grace, straight-line, sits Pine Hill, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Havre de Grace's own suburban edge band.

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

How Havre de Grace compares nationally

About 15,222 people live in Havre de Grace, MD, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Havre de Grace places 732 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.