Daly City, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Daly City reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 55.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Daly City.

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

How far Daly City is from a meaningfully darker sky

San Bruno, CA, about 6 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than Daly City. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

San Bruno, 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 Daly City compares nationally

Daly City, CA counts roughly 101,418 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Daly City places 1,775 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.