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How dark is the sky in Central Bohemian Region?

Sky darkness for 10 towns and parks in Central Bohemian Region, 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 Blaník Protected Landscape Area (21.19, Bortle 4), the brightest Mladá Boleslav (19.05, Bortle 6). The bright core of the Milky Way never climbs clear of the horizon haze anywhere in Central Bohemian Region while the sky is fully dark; the rest of the band passes overhead, with the longest moonless nights from September to April.

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 Central Bohemian Region with every place marked

Darkest skies in Central Bohemian Region

  1. Blaník Protected Landscape AreaBortle 421.19
  2. Křivoklátsko Protected Landscape AreaBortle 421.02

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

Brightest city skies in Central Bohemian Region

  1. Mladá BoleslavBortle 619.05
  2. KladnoBortle 619.46
  3. KolínBortle 519.70
  4. BerounBortle 519.75
  5. Brandýs nad Labem-Stará BoleslavBortle 519.85

All 10 places in Central Bohemian Region

Amber names are parks and certified dark-sky places. The figure is the Bortle class: 1 darkest, 9 city center.