Adelanto, CA Night Sky Brightness
Adelanto, CA's night sky, measured from orbit
Adelanto reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 14.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Adelanto.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Adelanto
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Hesperia, CA, roughly 15 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.
Hesperia, CA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
How Adelanto compares nationally
Adelanto, CA has a population of about 37,941, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Adelanto's position, 469 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.