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.

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.