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How dark is the sky in Burgenland?

Sky darkness for 2 towns and parks in Burgenland, worked out from NASA satellite images of light at night (2025). 2 of them have skies of Bortle 4 or darker, where the Milky Way shows overhead. The darkest is Raab-Őrség-Goričko Nature Park (21.51, Bortle 4), the brightest Neusiedler See-Seewinkel National Park (21.20, Bortle 4). Milky Way season in Burgenland runs May to July: on moonless nights the bright core stands clear of the horizon, climbing to about 14° at its highest.

19 Bortle class, 1 pristine to 9 city center park or dark-sky place city

Numbers like 21.95 or 16.97 are the brightness of the sky overhead on a clear, moonless night, in mag/arcsec². The scale runs backwards: a lower number means a brighter sky, from about 22 for a natural sky to about 17 in a city center.
How the readings are made

NASA satellite night-lights map of Burgenland with every place marked

Darkest skies in Burgenland

  1. Raab-Őrség-Goričko Nature ParkBortle 421.51
  2. Neusiedler See-Seewinkel National ParkBortle 421.20

Among the places on this site. Plenty of land between them is just as dark, with no town or park to name it by.

All 2 places in Burgenland

Amber names are parks and certified dark-sky places. The figure is the Bortle class: 1 darkest, 9 city center.
Neusiedler See-Seewinkel National Park4Raab-Őrség-Goričko Nature Park4