North Adams, MA's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts North Adams in the dark sky band. Among the darkest skies of any US city in this dataset. The Milky Way should be visible overhead on clear, moonless nights. That's brighter than 0.6% 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.

North Adams is already about as dark as this dataset gets

Nothing in this dataset's 3,206 US cities measures a darker sky than North Adams. That doesn't mean nowhere is darker, unincorporated land and wilderness aren't part of this dataset at all, only incorporated cities of 10,000 people or more.

How North Adams compares nationally

About 12,492 people live in North Adams, MA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. North Adams places 21 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.