Arvin, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Arvin's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 29.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Arvin.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

Where to go for a darker sky near Arvin

Shafter, CA, about 29 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Arvin. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Shafter, 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 Arvin compares nationally

Arvin, CA counts roughly 19,661 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Arvin places 938 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.