Beverly Hills, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Beverly Hills's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 82.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Beverly Hills.

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

How far Beverly Hills is from a meaningfully darker sky

11 miles from Beverly Hills, straight-line, sits Glendale, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Beverly Hills's own suburban band.

Glendale, 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 Beverly Hills compares nationally

Beverly Hills, CA has a population of about 31,027, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Beverly Hills places 2,629 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.