What the night sky looks like over Monroeville, PA

Satellite radiance puts Monroeville in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 19.7% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

How far Monroeville is from a meaningfully darker sky

5 miles from Monroeville, straight-line, sits Plum, PA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Monroeville's own suburban edge band.

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

Monroeville against the rest of the dataset

Monroeville, PA counts roughly 27,966 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Monroeville ranks 630 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.