What the night sky looks like over Claremont, CA

Claremont reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 21.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Claremont.

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.

The nearest darker sky to Claremont

13 miles from Claremont, straight-line, sits Chino Hills, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Claremont's own suburban edge band.

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.

Claremont against the rest of the dataset

Claremont, CA has a population of about 36,139, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Claremont ranks 697 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.