Pittsfield, MA's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Pittsfield in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 43.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Pittsfield.

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 Pittsfield

North Adams, MA, about 17 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Pittsfield. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

North Adams, 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 Pittsfield compares nationally

Pittsfield, MA counts roughly 43,121 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Pittsfield places 1,379 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.