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

Buena Park's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 93% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Buena Park

2 miles from Buena Park, straight-line, sits La Palma, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Buena Park's own urban band.

La Palma, 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 Buena Park compares nationally

About 82,611 people live in Buena Park, CA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Buena Park places 2,965 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.