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.

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 places 181 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.