Camarillo, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Camarillo's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 76% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Camarillo.

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

How far Camarillo is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Thousand Oaks, CA, roughly 9 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.

Thousand Oaks, 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 Camarillo compares nationally

About 69,881 people live in Camarillo, CA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Camarillo places 2,422 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.