New Castle, PA: how dark is the sky here?

New Castle's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. New Castle's sky is brighter than 85.4% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

The nearest darker sky to New Castle

17 miles from New Castle, straight-line, sits Hermitage, PA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than New Castle's own urban band.

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

How New Castle compares nationally

About 21,332 people live in New Castle, PA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. New Castle places 2,723 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.