Canyon Lake, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Canyon Lake's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 13.3% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Canyon Lake.

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 Canyon Lake

San Jacinto, CA, about 17 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Canyon Lake. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

San Jacinto, 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 Canyon Lake compares nationally

About 11,161 people live in Canyon Lake, CA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Canyon Lake places 425 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.