Schaumburg, IL's night sky, measured from orbit

Schaumburg's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. That's brighter than 71.9% of the 3,206 US 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 Schaumburg

Streamwood, IL, about 5 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Schaumburg. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Schaumburg compares nationally

Schaumburg, IL counts roughly 77,099 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Schaumburg places 2,293 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.