Mentor, OH: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Mentor in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 86.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Mentor.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

How far Mentor is from a meaningfully darker sky

Painesville, OH, about 5 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Mentor. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Mentor compares nationally

Mentor, OH counts roughly 47,113 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Mentor places 2,761 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.