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.

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 places 3,114 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.