Syracuse, NY's night sky, measured from orbit

Syracuse reads as inner-city on this dataset's scale. Among the brightest skies in this dataset. Usually just the Moon and a few of the brightest stars or planets cut through. Only 98.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Syracuse.

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 Syracuse

23 miles from Syracuse, straight-line, sits Auburn, NY, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Syracuse's own inner-city band.

Auburn, 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 Syracuse compares nationally

About 146,097 people live in Syracuse, NY, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Syracuse places 3,153 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.