Cudahy, CA: how dark is the sky here?

Cudahy's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 96.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Cudahy.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

How far Cudahy is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Pico Rivera, CA, roughly 6 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

Pico Rivera, 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 Cudahy compares nationally

Cudahy, CA has a population of about 21,694, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Cudahy places 3,089 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.