Quincy, MA Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Quincy, MA
Satellite radiance puts Quincy in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 75.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Quincy.
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 - the Bortle scale guide covers why.
The nearest darker sky to Quincy
Weymouth Town, MA, about 5 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Quincy. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Weymouth Town, MA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Quincy against the rest of the dataset
Quincy, MA has a population of about 103,434, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Quincy ranks 2,406 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.