Lima, OH: how dark is the sky here?

Lima's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Lima's sky is brighter than 90.2% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

How far Lima is from a meaningfully darker sky

Van Wert, OH, about 26 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Lima. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Lima compares nationally

Lima, OH has a population of about 34,690, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Lima places 2,875 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.