Poughkeepsie, NY's night sky, measured from orbit

Poughkeepsie reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 68.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Poughkeepsie.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

The nearest darker sky to Poughkeepsie

13 miles from Poughkeepsie, straight-line, sits Beacon, NY, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Poughkeepsie's own suburban band.

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

How Poughkeepsie compares nationally

Poughkeepsie, NY has a population of about 32,293, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Poughkeepsie places 2,174 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.