DarkSkyCheck

Revere, MA Night Sky Brightness

What the night sky looks like over Revere, MA

Suburban
26.8 nW/cm2/sr

Satellite radiance puts Revere in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 60.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Revere.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Revere

Winthrop Town, MA, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Revere. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Winthrop 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.

Revere against the rest of the dataset

About 60,702 people live in Revere, MA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, Revere ranks 1,935 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.