Hoboken, NJ Night Sky Brightness
Hoboken, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit
Hoboken's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 97.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Hoboken.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Hoboken
Kearny, NJ, about 5 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Hoboken. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Kearny, 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 Hoboken compares nationally
Hoboken, NJ has a population of about 59,149, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Hoboken's position, 3,114 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.