Lodi, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Lodi in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 94.9% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

The nearest darker sky to Lodi

1 miles from Lodi, straight-line, sits Hasbrouck Heights, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Lodi's own urban band.

Hasbrouck Heights, 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 Lodi compares nationally

About 26,358 people live in Lodi, NJ, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Lodi places 3,025 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.