Burlingame, CA Night Sky Brightness
Burlingame, CA's night sky, measured from orbit
Burlingame 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. Burlingame's sky is brighter than 86.3% 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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Burlingame
Millbrae, CA, about 2 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Burlingame. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.
Millbrae, 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 Burlingame compares nationally
Burlingame, CA counts roughly 30,885 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Burlingame's position, 2,750 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.