Woodbury, NY's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Woodbury in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 5.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Woodbury.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

The nearest darker sky to Woodbury

Ringwood, NJ, about 18 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Woodbury. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

How Woodbury compares nationally

Woodbury, NY counts roughly 11,523 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Woodbury places 175 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.