Toledo, OH's night sky, measured from orbit

Toledo reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Toledo's sky is brighter than 59.1% of the 3,206 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 Toledo

Sylvania, OH, about 7 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Toledo. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Sylvania, 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 Toledo compares nationally

About 265,638 people live in Toledo, OH, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Toledo places 1,883 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.