Streamwood, IL's night sky, measured from orbit

Streamwood's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 40.2% 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 Streamwood

4 miles from Streamwood, straight-line, sits Bartlett, IL, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Streamwood's own suburban edge band.

Bartlett, 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 Streamwood compares nationally

Streamwood, IL counts roughly 38,360 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Streamwood places 1,281 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.