Northampton, MA: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Northampton in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 2.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Northampton.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

Where to go for a darker sky near Northampton

20 miles from Northampton, straight-line, sits Greenfield, MA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Northampton's own rural band.

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

How Northampton compares nationally

Northampton, MA has a population of about 31,315, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Northampton places 85 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.