Newark, NJ Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 3,182 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.