Upper Arlington, OH's night sky, measured from orbit

Upper Arlington'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. Only 27.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Upper Arlington.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

Where to go for a darker sky near Upper Arlington

Pataskala, OH, about 19 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Upper Arlington. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Pataskala, 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 Upper Arlington compares nationally

Upper Arlington, OH has a population of about 36,140, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Upper Arlington places 888 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.