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How dark is the sky in West Pomerania?

Sky darkness for 7 towns and parks in West Pomerania, worked out from NASA satellite images of light at night (2025). 4 of them have skies of Bortle 4 or darker, where the Milky Way shows overhead. The darkest is Drawsko Landscape Park (21.60, Bortle 4), the brightest Szczecin (18.47, Bortle 7). The bright core of the Milky Way never climbs clear of the horizon haze anywhere in West Pomerania while the sky is fully dark; the rest of the band passes overhead, with the longest moonless nights from September to March.

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 West Pomerania with every place marked

Darkest skies in West Pomerania

  1. Drawsko Landscape ParkBortle 421.60
  2. Drawa National ParkBortle 421.54
  3. Cedynia Landscape ParkBortle 421.39
  4. Wolin National ParkBortle 421.20

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 West Pomerania

  1. SzczecinBortle 718.47
  2. KoszalinBortle 619.12
  3. StargardBortle 619.24

All 7 places in West Pomerania

Amber names are parks and certified dark-sky places. The figure is the Bortle class: 1 darkest, 9 city center.
Cedynia Landscape Park4Drawa National Park4Drawsko Landscape Park4Koszalin6Stargard6Szczecin7Wolin National Park4