Ceres, CA: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Ceres in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 95.5% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Ceres.

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.

How far Ceres is from a meaningfully darker sky

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

Turlock, 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 Ceres compares nationally

Ceres, CA counts roughly 49,253 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Ceres places 3,046 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.