Westbury, NY Night Sky Brightness
Westbury, NY: how dark is the sky here?
Westbury's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Westbury's sky is brighter than 82.1% of the 3,206 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 - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.
The nearest darker sky to Westbury
Glen Cove, NY, about 9 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Westbury. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Glen Cove, 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 Westbury compares nationally
Westbury, NY has a population of about 15,871, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Westbury places 2,619 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.