Newark, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit

Newark's sky measures inner-city here. Among the brightest skies in this dataset. Usually just the Moon and a few of the brightest stars or planets cut through. That's brighter than 99.8% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

The nearest darker sky to Newark

3 miles from Newark, straight-line, sits Kearny, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Newark's own inner-city band.

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

How Newark compares nationally

Newark, NJ counts roughly 317,303 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Newark places 3,182 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.