Stow, OH: how dark is the sky here?

Stow reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Stow's sky is brighter than 20.7% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Stow

6 miles from Stow, straight-line, sits Cuyahoga Falls, OH, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Stow's own suburban edge band.

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

How Stow compares nationally

Stow, OH counts roughly 34,101 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Stow places 661 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.