Light pollution in Ukraine

82 cities · estimated Bortle class at each city centre

1 of 82 cities read Bortle 8–9 · 20 of 82 cities read Bortle 7–8 · 43 of 82 cities read Bortle 6–7 · 15 of 82 cities read Bortle 5–6 · 3 of 82 cities read Bortle 4–5. The darkest city centre on the list is Shakhtarsk (Bortle 4–5).

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Cities, brightest first

#	City	Bortle (est.)	Brightness	2 classes darker
1	Kyiv	8–9	255	~25 km N
2	Dnipro	7–8	255	~25 km SSE
3	Kryvyy Rih	7–8	255	~25 km W
4	Odesa	7–8	255	~25 km SE
5	Kharkiv	7–8	255	~25 km SSW
6	Zaporizhzhya	7–8	253	~25 km S
7	Brovary	7–8	255	~25 km N
8	Lviv	7–8	255	~25 km NW
9	Donetsk	7–8	235	~25 km WNW
10	Sevastopol	7–8	255	~25 km NNW
11	Irpin	7–8	249	~25 km NNW
12	Mykolayiv	7–8	229	~25 km NE
13	Kherson	7–8	255	~25 km SW
14	Simferopol	7–8	250	~25 km SSE
15	Boryspil	7–8	242	~25 km SSW
16	Pravyi Bereh	7–8	172	~25 km SSE
17	Kamyanske	7–8	241	~25 km NW
18	Vinnytsya	7–8	249	~25 km ENE
19	Chornomors’k	7–8	242	~25 km SSE
20	Sumy	7–8	255	~25 km ESE
21	Chernivtsi	7–8	241	~25 km SW
22	Melitopol	6–7	239	~25 km S
23	Nikopol	6–7	249	~25 km WSW
24	Kerch	6–7	244	~25 km NNE
25	Poltava	6–7	249	~25 km NNE
26	Kropyvnytskyi	6–7	250	~25 km N
27	Ivano-Frankivsk	6–7	252	~25 km WSW
28	Kremenchuk	6–7	206	~25 km WNW
29	Rivne	6–7	247	~25 km N
30	Khmelnytskyi	6–7	249	~25 km ESE
31	Lutsk	6–7	243	~25 km ENE
32	Cherkasy	6–7	226	~25 km ESE
33	Izmayil	6–7	247	~25 km NW
34	Zhytomyr	6–7	251	~25 km SW
35	Ternopil	6–7	215	~25 km E
36	Berdyansk	6–7	253	~25 km SSE
37	Yalta	6–7	247	~25 km SE
38	Kamyanets-Podilskyi	6–7	254	~25 km ENE
39	Luhansk	6–7	209	~25 km ENE
40	Pokrovsk	6–7	250	~25 km SSW
41	Uzhhorod	6–7	245	~25 km NNE
42	Siverskodonetsk	6–7	180	~25 km ESE
43	Enerhodar	6–7	227	~25 km E
44	Yevpatoriya	6–7	255	~25 km SW
45	Uman	6–7	199	~25 km SW
46	Bila Tserkva	6–7	213	~25 km ESE
47	Berdychiv	6–7	235	~25 km NNW
48	Alchevsk	6–7	206	~25 km SW
49	Feodosiya	6–7	204	~25 km SSE
50	Korosten	6–7	224	~25 km NW
51	Pavlohrad	6–7	166	~25 km SSW
52	Kolomyia	6–7	227	~25 km WSW
53	Sheptytskyi	6–7	210	~25 km S
54	Mukachevo	6–7	201	~25 km N
55	Voznesenskyi	6–7	126	~25 km NNW
56	Drohobych	6–7	164	~25 km SW
57	Pervomaysk	6–7	168	~25 km SSW
58	Stryi	6–7	204	~25 km WSW
59	Oleksandriya	6–7	176	~25 km SW
60	Kovel	6–7	193	~25 km NW
61	Smila	6–7	162	~25 km NNW
62	Lozova	6–7	182	~25 km NNE
63	Kramatorsk	6–7	141	~25 km N
64	Pryluky	6–7	157	~25 km NNW
65	Bakhmut	5–6	147	not within 90 km
66	Kalush	5–6	164	~50 km WSW
67	Kostyantynivka	5–6	140	not within 90 km
68	Khartsyzk	5–6	105	not within 90 km
69	Dovzhansk	5–6	135	not within 90 km
70	Shostka	5–6	157	not within 90 km
71	Samar	5–6	102	not within 90 km
72	Zvyahel	5–6	114	~25 km NNW
73	Yenakiyeve	5–6	108	not within 90 km
74	Khrustalnyi	5–6	129	not within 90 km
75	Horlivka	5–6	108	not within 90 km
76	Snizhne	5–6	59	not within 90 km
77	Kadiyivka	5–6	51	not within 90 km
78	Chernihiv	5–6	50	~50 km SW
79	Nizhyn	5–6	45	~90 km W
80	Inhulets	4–5	22	not within 90 km
81	Konotop	4–5	31	not within 90 km
82	Shakhtarsk	4–5	20	not within 90 km

Brightness is the NASA VIIRS Black Marble 2016 value at the city centre on a 0–255 scale; 255 is saturated. Cities are ordered by estimated sky brightness, which also counts the light within 30 km.