Pleasantville, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit

Pleasantville's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 55.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Pleasantville.

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 Pleasantville

Atlantic City, NJ, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Pleasantville. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Atlantic City, 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 Pleasantville compares nationally

Pleasantville, NJ has a population of about 20,924, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Pleasantville places 1,780 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.