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How dark is the sky in Skåne?

Sky darkness for 10 towns and parks in Skåne, 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 Stenshuvud National Park (21.07, Bortle 4), the brightest Malmö (17.46, Bortle 8). The bright core of the Milky Way never climbs clear of the horizon haze anywhere in Skåne 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 Skåne with every place marked

Darkest skies in Skåne

  1. Stenshuvud National ParkBortle 421.07
  2. Söderåsen National ParkBortle 420.60

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 Skåne

  1. MalmöBortle 817.46
  2. HelsingborgBortle 817.84
  3. LundBortle 818.12
  4. TrelleborgBortle 818.36
  5. KristianstadBortle 718.50

All 10 places in Skåne

Amber names are parks and certified dark-sky places. The figure is the Bortle class: 1 darkest, 9 city center.
Dalby Söderskog National Park5Helsingborg8Kristianstad7Landskrona7Lund8Malmö8Stenshuvud National Park4Söderåsen National Park4Trelleborg8Ängelholm7