Barstow, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Barstow's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 3.1% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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 Barstow

51 miles from Barstow, straight-line, sits California City, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Barstow's own rural band.

California City, 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 Barstow compares nationally

Barstow, CA counts roughly 24,897 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Barstow places 99 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.