Urbana, OH's night sky, measured from orbit

Urbana reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 45.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Urbana.

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 Urbana

22 miles from Urbana, straight-line, sits London, OH, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Urbana's own suburban band.

London, 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 Urbana compares nationally

Urbana, OH has a population of about 11,211, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Urbana places 1,462 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.