Methuen, MA Night Sky Brightness
Methuen, MA's night sky, measured from orbit
Satellite radiance puts Methuen in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Methuen's sky is brighter than 9.2% of the 3,206 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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Methuen
34 miles from Methuen, straight-line, sits Fitchburg, MA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Methuen's own rural band.
Fitchburg, MA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Methuen compares nationally
Methuen, MA counts roughly 54,272 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Methuen's position, 295 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.