Covina, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Covina 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 92.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Covina.

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

The nearest darker sky to Covina

West Covina, CA, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Covina. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

West Covina, 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 Covina compares nationally

Covina, CA has a population of about 49,245, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Covina places 2,940 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.