DarkSkyCheck

Winchester, KY: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Winchester in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 33.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Winchester.

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 Winchester

68 miles from Winchester, straight-line, sits Alexandria, KY, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Winchester's own suburban edge band.

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

How Winchester compares nationally

About 19,413 people live in Winchester, KY, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Winchester places 1,067 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.