Keene, NH Night Sky Brightness
Keene, NH's night sky, measured from orbit
Satellite radiance puts Keene in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 5.6% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.
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.
Where to go for a darker sky near Keene
28 miles from Keene, straight-line, sits Greenfield, MA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Keene's own rural band.
Greenfield, MA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Keene compares nationally
Keene, NH counts roughly 23,036 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Keene's position, 181 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.