Middletown, DE Night Sky Brightness
Middletown, DE: how dark is the sky here?
Middletown's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Middletown's sky is brighter than 56.5% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.
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 - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.
The nearest darker sky to Middletown
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Havre de Grace, MD, roughly 22 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.
Havre de Grace, MD is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Middletown compares nationally
Middletown, DE has a population of about 25,686, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Middletown places 1,802 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.