Shorewood, WI Night Sky Brightness
Shorewood, WI's night sky, measured from orbit
Shorewood reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 71.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Shorewood.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Shorewood
2 miles from Shorewood, straight-line, sits Whitefish Bay, WI, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Shorewood's own suburban band.
Whitefish Bay, WI is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Shorewood compares nationally
About 13,521 people live in Shorewood, WI, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Shorewood's position, 2,284 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.