What the night sky looks like over Valley Stream, NY

Valley Stream reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Valley Stream's sky is brighter than 91.6% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

The nearest darker sky to Valley Stream

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is East Rockaway, NY, roughly 2 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

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

Valley Stream against the rest of the dataset

Valley Stream, NY counts roughly 40,232 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Valley Stream ranks 2,919 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.