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How dark is the sky in Békés?

Sky darkness for 5 towns and parks in Békés, 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 Körös-Maros National Park (21.18, Bortle 4), the brightest Békéscsaba (19.63, Bortle 5). Milky Way season in Békés 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 Békés with every place marked

Darkest skies in Békés

  1. Körös-Maros National ParkBortle 421.18
  2. BékésBortle 420.55

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 Békés

  1. BékéscsabaBortle 519.63
  2. GyulaBortle 519.92
  3. OrosházaBortle 520.07

All 5 places in Békés

Amber names are parks and certified dark-sky places. The figure is the Bortle class: 1 darkest, 9 city center.
Békés4Békéscsaba5Gyula5Körös-Maros National Park4Orosháza5