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.

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 places 295 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.