Ridgefield Park, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit

Ridgefield Park reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Ridgefield Park's sky is brighter than 77.5% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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 Ridgefield Park

River Edge, NJ, about 5 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Ridgefield Park. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

River Edge, 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 Ridgefield Park compares nationally

Ridgefield Park, NJ has a population of about 13,400, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Ridgefield Park places 2,472 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.