Rye, NY Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Rye, NY?
Satellite radiance puts Rye in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 7% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Rye
32 miles from Rye, straight-line, sits Ringwood, NJ, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Rye's own rural band.
Ringwood, NJ is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Rye against the rest of the dataset
Rye, NY has a population of about 16,463, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Rye comes in at 226, darkest to brightest.