Parma Heights, OH Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Parma Heights, OH
Satellite radiance puts Parma Heights in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 68.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Parma Heights.
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 Bortle scale guide covers why.
Where to go for a darker sky near Parma Heights
Seven Hills, OH, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Parma Heights. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Seven Hills, OH is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Parma Heights against the rest of the dataset
Parma Heights, OH has a population of about 20,524, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Parma Heights ranks 2,189 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.