What the night sky looks like over Mayfield Heights, OH

Mayfield Heights reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 92.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Mayfield Heights.

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 nearest darker sky to Mayfield Heights

Lyndhurst, OH, about 2 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Mayfield Heights. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Mayfield Heights against the rest of the dataset

Mayfield Heights, OH counts roughly 19,886 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Mayfield Heights ranks 2,960 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.