Compton, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Compton reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 93.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Compton.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

Where to go for a darker sky near Compton

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Carson, CA, roughly 4 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

Carson, 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 Compton compares nationally

Compton, CA has a population of about 91,129, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Compton places 2,968 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.