Winthrop Town, MA Night Sky Brightness
Winthrop Town, MA's night sky, measured from orbit
Winthrop Town's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Winthrop Town's sky is brighter than 36.6% of the 3,206 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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Winthrop Town
Peabody, MA, about 11 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Winthrop Town. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Peabody, MA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Winthrop Town compares nationally
Winthrop Town, MA has a population of about 18,739, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Winthrop Town's position, 1,169 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.