Cathedral City, CA: how dark is the sky here?

Cathedral City's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 49.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Cathedral City.

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 Cathedral City

10 miles from Cathedral City, straight-line, sits Desert Hot Springs, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Cathedral City's own suburban band.

Desert Hot Springs, 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 Cathedral City compares nationally

Cathedral City, CA has a population of about 52,517, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Cathedral City places 1,576 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.