North Adams, MA Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 21 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.