Rochester Hills, MI's night sky, measured from orbit

Rochester Hills's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Rochester Hills's sky is brighter than 24.7% 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 Rochester Hills

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Oregon, OH, roughly 71 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

How Rochester Hills compares nationally

Rochester Hills, MI has a population of about 78,330, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Rochester Hills places 787 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.