What the night sky looks like over Holyoke, MA

Holyoke's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 7.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Holyoke.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

Where to go for a darker sky near Holyoke

Palmer Town, MA, about 17 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Holyoke. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Holyoke against the rest of the dataset

Holyoke, MA has a population of about 37,838, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Holyoke ranks 237 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.