Hoffman Estates, IL Night Sky Brightness
Hoffman Estates, IL's night sky, measured from orbit
Hoffman Estates 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. Only 96.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Hoffman Estates.
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 Hoffman Estates
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Streamwood, IL, roughly 3 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.
Streamwood, IL is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Hoffman Estates compares nationally
Hoffman Estates, IL has a population of about 50,920, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Hoffman Estates's position, 3,080 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.