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How dark is the sky in East Macedonia and Thrace?

Sky darkness for 9 towns and parks in East Macedonia and Thrace, worked out from NASA satellite images of light at night (2025). 3 of them have skies of Bortle 4 or darker, where the Milky Way shows overhead. The darkest is Rodopi Mountain Range National Park (21.68, Bortle 4), the brightest Komotini (19.45, Bortle 6). Milky Way season in East Macedonia and Thrace runs March to August: on moonless nights the bright core stands clear of the horizon, climbing to about 20° 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 East Macedonia and Thrace with every place marked

Darkest skies in East Macedonia and Thrace

  1. Rodopi Mountain Range National ParkBortle 421.68
  2. Evros Delta National ParkBortle 421.39
  3. Dadia Forest National ParkBortle 421.21

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 East Macedonia and Thrace

  1. KomotiniBortle 619.45
  2. XanthiBortle 619.48
  3. KavalaBortle 619.49
  4. AlexandroupoliBortle 519.75
  5. DramaBortle 520.03

All 9 places in East Macedonia and Thrace

Amber names are parks and certified dark-sky places. The figure is the Bortle class: 1 darkest, 9 city center.
Alexandroupoli5Dadia Forest National Park4Drama5Evros Delta National Park4Kavala6Komotini6Nestos Delta and Lake Vistonida National Park5Rodopi Mountain Range National Park4Xanthi6