Corte Madera, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Corte Madera 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. That's brighter than 18.2% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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 Corte Madera

Mill Valley, CA, about 2 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Corte Madera. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Mill Valley, 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 Corte Madera compares nationally

Corte Madera, CA counts roughly 10,006 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Corte Madera places 581 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.