Clearlake, CA: how dark is the sky here?

Clearlake's sky measures suburban edge here. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 22.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Clearlake.

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 Clearlake

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Benicia, CA, roughly 67 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

Benicia, 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 Clearlake compares nationally

Clearlake, CA has a population of about 16,636, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Clearlake places 714 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.