New Brunswick, NJ Night Sky Brightness
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 - the Bortle scale guide covers why.
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, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.