Concord, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Concord 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 28.4% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Concord.

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 Concord

11 miles from Concord, straight-line, sits Benicia, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Concord's own suburban edge band.

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 Concord compares nationally

Concord, CA has a population of about 124,016, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Concord places 905 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.