Lowell, IN: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Lowell in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 18.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Lowell.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Lowell

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Hobart, IN, roughly 17 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

How Lowell compares nationally

Lowell, IN counts roughly 11,449 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Lowell places 580 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.