Ocean City, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit

Ocean City reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 12.4% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Ocean City

Ringwood, NJ, about 128 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Ocean City. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Ringwood, 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 Ocean City compares nationally

Ocean City, NJ has a population of about 11,219, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Ocean City places 396 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.