Mamaroneck, NY Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Mamaroneck, NY
Mamaroneck reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 16.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Mamaroneck.
The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class - the Bortle scale guide covers why.
How far Mamaroneck is from a meaningfully darker sky
2 miles from Mamaroneck, straight-line, sits Rye, NY, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Mamaroneck's own suburban edge band.
Rye, NY is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Mamaroneck against the rest of the dataset
About 19,783 people live in Mamaroneck, NY, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Mamaroneck ranks 537 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.