Carpinteria, CA: how dark is the sky here?

Carpinteria's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Only 4.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Carpinteria.

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 Carpinteria

102 miles from Carpinteria, straight-line, sits Atascadero, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Carpinteria's own rural band.

Atascadero, 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 Carpinteria compares nationally

About 12,876 people live in Carpinteria, CA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Carpinteria places 152 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.