Desert Hot Springs, CA: how dark is the sky here?

Desert Hot Springs reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 2.4% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Desert Hot Springs

Banning, CA, about 20 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Desert Hot Springs. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Banning, 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 Desert Hot Springs compares nationally

Desert Hot Springs, CA counts roughly 33,917 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Desert Hot Springs places 78 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.