Whitewater, WI Night Sky Brightness
Whitewater, WI: how dark is the sky here?
Whitewater reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Whitewater's sky is brighter than 58% 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.
Where to go for a darker sky near Whitewater
8 miles from Whitewater, straight-line, sits Fort Atkinson, WI, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Whitewater's own suburban band.
Fort Atkinson, 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 Whitewater compares nationally
Whitewater, WI has a population of about 16,076, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Whitewater places 1,851 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.