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.

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 places 2,804 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.