Alhambra, CA: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Alhambra in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Alhambra's sky is brighter than 95.1% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

The nearest darker sky to Alhambra

South Pasadena, CA, about 2 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Alhambra. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

South Pasadena, 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 Alhambra compares nationally

Alhambra, CA counts roughly 80,279 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Alhambra places 3,032 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.