DarkSkyCheck

Baldwin Park, CA Night Sky Brightness

Baldwin Park, CA: how dark is the sky here?

Suburban
32.3 nW/cm2/sr

Satellite radiance puts Baldwin Park in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 70.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Baldwin Park.

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 - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.

How far Baldwin Park is from a meaningfully darker sky

6 miles from Baldwin Park, straight-line, sits Duarte, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Baldwin Park's own suburban band.

Duarte, 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 Baldwin Park compares nationally

Baldwin Park, CA has a population of about 69,247, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Baldwin Park places 2,260 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.