Saco, ME: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Saco in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 31.3% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Saco.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

The nearest darker sky to Saco

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Westbrook, ME, roughly 13 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

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

How Saco compares nationally

Saco, ME counts roughly 21,064 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Saco places 999 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.