Worcester, MA: how dark is the sky here?

Worcester reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Worcester's sky is brighter than 87.2% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Worcester

14 miles from Worcester, straight-line, sits Marlborough, MA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Worcester's own urban band.

Marlborough, 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 Worcester compares nationally

Worcester, MA has a population of about 211,286, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Worcester places 2,781 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.