What the night sky looks like over Chino, CA

Satellite radiance puts Chino in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Chino's sky is brighter than 35.8% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

How far Chino is from a meaningfully darker sky

Chino Hills, CA, about 4 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Chino. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Chino Hills, CA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

Chino against the rest of the dataset

Chino, CA has a population of about 94,010, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Chino ranks 1,141 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.