Bell Gardens, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Bell Gardens reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Bell Gardens's sky is brighter than 92.9% of the 3,206 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 Bell Gardens

Pico Rivera, CA, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Bell Gardens. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Pico Rivera, 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 Bell Gardens compares nationally

About 37,565 people live in Bell Gardens, CA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Bell Gardens places 2,962 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.