Covina, CA Night Sky Brightness
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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
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's position, 2,940 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.