West Springfield Town, MA: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts West Springfield Town in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 7.7% 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 West Springfield Town

18 miles from West Springfield Town, straight-line, sits Palmer Town, MA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than West Springfield Town's own rural band.

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

How West Springfield Town compares nationally

West Springfield Town, MA has a population of about 29,028, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. West Springfield Town places 247 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.