Peabody, MA's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Peabody in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Peabody's sky is brighter than 9.4% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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

The nearest darker sky to Peabody

Fitchburg, MA, about 43 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Peabody. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Peabody compares nationally

Peabody, MA counts roughly 55,418 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Peabody places 302 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.