Waterbury, CT: how dark is the sky here?

Waterbury's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 95.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Waterbury.

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 Waterbury

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Naugatuck, CT, roughly 5 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

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

How Waterbury compares nationally

About 115,908 people live in Waterbury, CT, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Waterbury places 3,051 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.