Trenton, NJ: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Trenton in the inner-city band. Among the brightest skies in this dataset. Usually just the Moon and a few of the brightest stars or planets cut through. Only 99.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Trenton.

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 Trenton

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Princeton, NJ, roughly 11 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

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

How Trenton compares nationally

Trenton, NJ has a population of about 91,193, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Trenton places 3,162 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.