Sayreville, NJ's night sky, measured from orbit

Sayreville'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. Only 35.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Sayreville.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

How far Sayreville is from a meaningfully darker sky

Tinton Falls, NJ, about 18 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Sayreville. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Tinton Falls, 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 Sayreville compares nationally

Sayreville, NJ counts roughly 47,165 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Sayreville places 1,123 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.