Oak Park, MI's night sky, measured from orbit

Oak Park's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 76.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Oak Park.

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 Oak Park

Royal Oak, MI, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Oak Park. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Oak Park compares nationally

Oak Park, MI counts roughly 29,402 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Oak Park places 2,429 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.