The Bortle scale runs from Class 1 for the darkest possible sky to Class 9 for an inner-city sky. Rather than guess, answer a few questions about what you can actually see overhead and this estimates your class, your naked-eye limiting magnitude, and what is realistically within reach. The single best test is the Milky Way: if you cannot see it at all, you are in suburban skies or worse.
What can you see overhead on a clear, moonless night?
Let your eyes adapt to the dark for 15 to 20 minutes first, then look straight up.
The Bortle scale was devised by amateur astronomer John Bortle and published in Sky & Telescope in 2001. It is a judgement based on what the unaided eye can see, so two people can rate the same sky a class apart; treat the result as a sensible estimate, not a measurement. For an objective reading, a sky quality meter gives a number in magnitudes per square arcsecond, and many UK dark-sky reserves publish their typical figures.