What the night sky looks like over Kiryas Joel, NY

Kiryas Joel's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 94.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Kiryas Joel.

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 Kiryas Joel

Woodbury, NY, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Kiryas Joel. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Kiryas Joel against the rest of the dataset

Kiryas Joel, NY counts roughly 43,863 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Kiryas Joel ranks 3,015 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.