Milwaukee, WI Night Sky Brightness
Milwaukee, WI's night sky, measured from orbit
Milwaukee's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 88% of the 3,206 US 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.
The nearest darker sky to Milwaukee
3 miles from Milwaukee, straight-line, sits Wauwatosa, WI, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Milwaukee's own urban band.
Wauwatosa, 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 Milwaukee compares nationally
Milwaukee, WI has a population of about 563,531, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Milwaukee's position, 2,804 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.