What the night sky looks like over Laconia, NH

Laconia reads as dark sky on this dataset's scale. Among the darkest skies of any US city in this dataset. The Milky Way should be visible overhead on clear, moonless nights. That's brighter than 0.8% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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.

Laconia is already about as dark as this dataset gets

Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than Laconia. That doesn't mean nowhere is darker, unincorporated land and wilderness aren't part of this dataset at all, only incorporated cities of 10,000 people or more.

Laconia against the rest of the dataset

About 17,310 people live in Laconia, NH, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Laconia ranks 26 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.