What the night sky looks like over Lewiston, ME

Lewiston's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 6.3% 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.

How far Lewiston is from a meaningfully darker sky

Westbrook, ME, about 28 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Lewiston. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Lewiston against the rest of the dataset

About 38,772 people live in Lewiston, ME, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Lewiston ranks 201 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.