Brea, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Brea in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Brea's sky is brighter than 36.5% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Brea

Chino Hills, CA, about 8 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Brea. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Chino Hills, 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 Brea compares nationally

About 47,844 people live in Brea, CA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Brea places 1,166 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.