DarkSkyCheck

Lindenwold, NJ Night Sky Brightness

Lindenwold, NJ: how dark is the sky here?

Suburban
20.3 nW/cm2/sr

Lindenwold's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Lindenwold's sky is brighter than 44.7% 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 - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.

How far Lindenwold is from a meaningfully darker sky

2 miles from Lindenwold, straight-line, sits Pine Hill, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Lindenwold's own suburban band.

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

How Lindenwold compares nationally

Lindenwold, NJ has a population of about 21,919, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Lindenwold places 1,425 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.