Mineola, NY's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Mineola in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 94.6% 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 Mineola

1 miles from Mineola, straight-line, sits Garden City, NY, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Mineola's own urban band.

Garden City, NY is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

How Mineola compares nationally

Mineola, NY counts roughly 21,305 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Mineola places 3,017 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.