What the night sky looks like over Oneida, NY

Oneida 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 6.3% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

The nearest darker sky to Oneida

132 miles from Oneida, straight-line, sits North Adams, MA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Oneida's own rural band.

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

Oneida against the rest of the dataset

Oneida, NY has a population of about 10,066, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Oneida ranks 202 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.