Calimesa, CA Night Sky Brightness
How dark is the sky in Calimesa, CA?
Satellite radiance puts Calimesa in the rural band. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 10.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Calimesa.
Worth remembering: this is satellite radiance, not a ground observation. A true Bortle rating needs a human eye at night, this is the closest large-scale substitute, covered fully in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Calimesa
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Banning, CA, roughly 9 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.
Banning, CA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Calimesa against the rest of the dataset
Calimesa, CA has a population of about 11,150, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Ranked against the other 3,206 cities here by the methodology guide's own sampling, Calimesa comes in at 327, darkest to brightest.