Mount Kisco, NY Night Sky Brightness
Mount Kisco, NY's night sky, measured from orbit
Mount Kisco's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Mount Kisco's sky is brighter than 35.9% of the 3,206 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.
Where to go for a darker sky near Mount Kisco
10 miles from Mount Kisco, straight-line, sits Sleepy Hollow, NY, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Mount Kisco's own suburban edge band.
Sleepy Hollow, 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 Mount Kisco compares nationally
About 10,698 people live in Mount Kisco, NY, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Mount Kisco's position, 1,147 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.