Plainfield, NJ: how dark is the sky here?

Plainfield 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 96.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Plainfield.

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.

How far Plainfield is from a meaningfully darker sky

1 miles from Plainfield, straight-line, sits North Plainfield, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Plainfield's own urban band.

North Plainfield, 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 Plainfield compares nationally

Plainfield, NJ counts roughly 56,507 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Plainfield places 3,065 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.