What the night sky looks like over Mount Vernon, NY

Mount Vernon's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 86.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Mount Vernon.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Mount Vernon

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is New Rochelle, NY, roughly 3 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

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

Mount Vernon against the rest of the dataset

Mount Vernon, NY counts roughly 71,999 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Mount Vernon ranks 2,756 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.