St. John, IN Night Sky Brightness
St. John, IN: how dark is the sky here?
St. John 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 74.3% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than St. John.
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 - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.
The nearest darker sky to St. John
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Cedar Lake, IN, roughly 5 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.
Cedar Lake, IN is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How St. John compares nationally
St. John, IN has a population of about 24,250, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. St. John places 2,369 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.