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How dark is the sky in Bács-Kiskun?

Sky darkness for 5 towns and parks in Bács-Kiskun, worked out from NASA satellite images of light at night (2025). 1 of them has skies of Bortle 4 or darker, where the Milky Way shows overhead. The darkest is Kiskunság National Park (21.35, Bortle 4), the brightest Kecskemét (19.09, Bortle 6). Milky Way season in Bács-Kiskun runs May to July: on moonless nights the bright core stands clear of the horizon, climbing to about 15° 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 Bács-Kiskun with every place marked

Darkest skies in Bács-Kiskun

  1. Kiskunság National ParkBortle 421.35

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 Bács-Kiskun

  1. KecskemétBortle 619.09
  2. BajaBortle 519.82
  3. KiskunfélegyházaBortle 519.86
  4. KiskunhalasBortle 520.05

All 5 places in Bács-Kiskun

Amber names are parks and certified dark-sky places. The figure is the Bortle class: 1 darkest, 9 city center.
Baja5Kecskemét6Kiskunfélegyháza5Kiskunhalas5Kiskunság National Park4