Melrose Park, IL Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Melrose Park, IL
Satellite radiance puts Melrose Park 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 98% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.
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 Melrose Park is from a meaningfully darker sky
Maywood, IL, about 2 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Melrose Park. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Maywood, IL is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Melrose Park against the rest of the dataset
Melrose Park, IL has a population of about 23,999, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Melrose Park ranks 3,125 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.