What the night sky looks like over New Brunswick, NJ

New Brunswick'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 97.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than New Brunswick.

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 New Brunswick is from a meaningfully darker sky

Highland Park, NJ, about 1 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than New Brunswick. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

New Brunswick against the rest of the dataset

New Brunswick, NJ has a population of about 57,487, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, New Brunswick ranks 3,122 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.