Weston, WI's night sky, measured from orbit

Weston reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 3.4% 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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Weston

Windsor, WI, about 114 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Weston. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Weston compares nationally

Weston, WI has a population of about 15,866, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Weston places 110 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.