North Tonawanda, NY Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 1,395 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.