What the night sky looks like over Parkersburg, WV

Satellite radiance puts Parkersburg in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 86.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Parkersburg.

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 Parkersburg

Vienna, WV, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Parkersburg. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Parkersburg against the rest of the dataset

Parkersburg, WV has a population of about 28,834, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Parkersburg ranks 2,763 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.