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How dark is the sky in Umbria?

Sky darkness for 3 towns and parks in Umbria, 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 Perugia (19.31, Bortle 6), the brightest Terni (18.99, Bortle 6). Milky Way season in Umbria runs April to August: on moonless nights the bright core stands clear of the horizon, climbing to about 18° 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 Umbria with every place marked

Darkest skies in Umbria

  1. PerugiaBortle 619.31
  2. FolignoBortle 619.23
  3. TerniBortle 618.99

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

All 3 places in Umbria

Amber names are parks and certified dark-sky places. The figure is the Bortle class: 1 darkest, 9 city center.
Foligno6Perugia6Terni6