Passaic, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Passaic in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 98.3% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Passaic.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

Where to go for a darker sky near Passaic

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Garfield, NJ, roughly 2 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

Garfield, 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 Passaic compares nationally

Passaic, NJ counts roughly 70,722 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Passaic places 3,135 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.