Passaic, NJ Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 3,135 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.