Menomonee Falls, WI's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Menomonee Falls in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 9.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Menomonee Falls.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

How far Menomonee Falls is from a meaningfully darker sky

20 miles from Menomonee Falls, straight-line, sits Muskego, WI, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Menomonee Falls's own rural band.

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

How Menomonee Falls compares nationally

Menomonee Falls, WI counts roughly 40,700 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Menomonee Falls places 316 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.