North Tonawanda, NY's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts North Tonawanda in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 43.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than North Tonawanda.

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 North Tonawanda

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is St. Marys, PA, roughly 112 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

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

How North Tonawanda compares nationally

North Tonawanda, NY has a population of about 29,981, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. North Tonawanda places 1,395 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.