McKeesport, PA's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts McKeesport 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. That's brighter than 29.2% 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.

How far McKeesport is from a meaningfully darker sky

6 miles from McKeesport, straight-line, sits Jefferson Hills, PA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than McKeesport's own suburban edge band.

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

How McKeesport compares nationally

McKeesport, PA counts roughly 17,119 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. McKeesport places 931 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.