Oakland, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit

Oakland's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 44.9% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Oakland

2 miles from Oakland, straight-line, sits Franklin Lakes, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Oakland's own suburban band.

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

How Oakland compares nationally

Oakland, NJ has a population of about 12,926, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Oakland places 1,431 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.