What the night sky looks like over Pittsburgh, PA

Pittsburgh reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 95.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Pittsburgh.

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.

How far Pittsburgh is from a meaningfully darker sky

Baldwin, PA, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Pittsburgh. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Pittsburgh against the rest of the dataset

Pittsburgh, PA has a population of about 307,668, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Pittsburgh ranks 3,033 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.