Waynesboro, VA: how dark is the sky here?

Waynesboro reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. That's brighter than 21.1% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Waynesboro

Reidsville, NC, about 127 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Waynesboro. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Waynesboro compares nationally

About 23,498 people live in Waynesboro, VA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Waynesboro places 675 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.