New Haven, CT: how dark is the sky here?

New Haven'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 Haven's sky is brighter than 97.2% 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 Haven

3 miles from New Haven, straight-line, sits West Haven, CT, the nearest city here with a darker sky than New Haven's own urban band.

West Haven, CT 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 Haven compares nationally

New Haven, CT counts roughly 137,562 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. New Haven places 3,098 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.