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How dark is the sky in Trnava Region?

Sky darkness for 4 towns and parks in Trnava Region, 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 Dunajské luhy Protected Landscape Area (20.79, Bortle 4), the brightest Trnava (18.76, Bortle 7). Milky Way season in Trnava Region runs May to July: on moonless nights the bright core stands clear of the horizon, climbing to about 13° 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 Trnava Region with every place marked

Darkest skies in Trnava Region

  1. Dunajské luhy Protected Landscape AreaBortle 420.79

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 Trnava Region

  1. TrnavaBortle 718.76
  2. Dunajská StredaBortle 619.38
  3. PiešťanyBortle 519.59

All 4 places in Trnava Region

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