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How dark is the sky in Veszprém?

Sky darkness for 5 towns and parks in Veszprém, worked out from NASA satellite images of light at night (2025). None of them have skies of Bortle 4 or darker, where the Milky Way shows overhead. The darkest is Balaton Uplands National Park (20.40, Bortle 5), the brightest Veszprém (19.45, Bortle 6). Milky Way season in Veszprém 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 Veszprém with every place marked

Darkest skies in Veszprém

  1. Balaton Uplands National ParkBortle 520.40
  2. VárpalotaBortle 520.02
  3. AjkaBortle 519.96

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 Veszprém

  1. VeszprémBortle 619.45
  2. PápaBortle 519.90

All 5 places in Veszprém

Amber names are parks and certified dark-sky places. The figure is the Bortle class: 1 darkest, 9 city center.
Ajka5Balaton Uplands National Park5Pápa5Veszprém6Várpalota5