Watertown, NY Night Sky Brightness
Watertown, NY's night sky, measured from orbit
Watertown's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 90.2% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Watertown
46 miles from Watertown, straight-line, sits Oswego, NY, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Watertown's own urban band.
Oswego, NY is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Watertown compares nationally
Watertown, NY counts roughly 24,038 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Watertown's position, 2,876 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.