Hempstead, NY: how dark is the sky here?

Hempstead's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 97.2% of the 3,206 US 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Hempstead

2 miles from Hempstead, straight-line, sits Garden City, NY, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Hempstead's own urban band.

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

How Hempstead compares nationally

Hempstead, NY counts roughly 59,569 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Hempstead places 3,100 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.