What the night sky looks like over Palisades Park, NJ

Palisades Park's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Palisades Park's sky is brighter than 85.5% of the 3,206 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 Palisades Park

1 miles from Palisades Park, straight-line, sits Ridgefield Park, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Palisades Park's own urban band.

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

Palisades Park against the rest of the dataset

Palisades Park, NJ has a population of about 20,520, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Palisades Park ranks 2,725 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.