Whitefish Bay, WI: how dark is the sky here?

Whitefish Bay 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. Whitefish Bay's sky is brighter than 36.1% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Whitefish Bay

9 miles from Whitefish Bay, straight-line, sits Mequon, WI, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Whitefish Bay's own suburban edge band.

Mequon, 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 Whitefish Bay compares nationally

Whitefish Bay, WI has a population of about 14,532, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Whitefish Bay places 1,152 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.