Wickliffe, OH Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Wickliffe, OH
Satellite radiance puts Wickliffe in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 79.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Wickliffe.
The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class - the Bortle scale guide covers why.
How far Wickliffe is from a meaningfully darker sky
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Richmond Heights, OH, roughly 4 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.
Richmond Heights, OH is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Wickliffe against the rest of the dataset
Wickliffe, OH has a population of about 12,659, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Wickliffe ranks 2,541 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.