Hyattsville, MD: how dark is the sky here?

Hyattsville reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 82.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Hyattsville.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Hyattsville

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is New Carrollton, MD, roughly 4 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

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

How Hyattsville compares nationally

Hyattsville, MD counts roughly 21,052 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Hyattsville places 2,636 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.