Tonawanda, NY: how dark is the sky here?

Tonawanda 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. That's brighter than 34.5% of the 3,206 US 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Tonawanda

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is St. Marys, PA, roughly 109 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

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

How Tonawanda compares nationally

About 14,984 people live in Tonawanda, NY, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Tonawanda places 1,101 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.