Spring Valley, NY's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Spring Valley in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 92.6% 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 Spring Valley

2 miles from Spring Valley, straight-line, sits Chestnut Ridge, NY, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Spring Valley's own urban band.

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

How Spring Valley compares nationally

Spring Valley, NY counts roughly 33,637 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Spring Valley places 2,951 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.