Phoenixville, PA: how dark is the sky here?

Phoenixville reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Phoenixville's sky is brighter than 75.7% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

Where to go for a darker sky near Phoenixville

Pine Hill, NJ, about 38 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Phoenixville. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Pine Hill, 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 Phoenixville compares nationally

Phoenixville, PA counts roughly 20,286 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Phoenixville places 2,415 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.