Madison Heights, MI's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Madison Heights 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 88.5% 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 Madison Heights

3 miles from Madison Heights, straight-line, sits Royal Oak, MI, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Madison Heights's own urban band.

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

How Madison Heights compares nationally

Madison Heights, MI counts roughly 28,626 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Madison Heights places 2,822 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.