What the night sky looks like over Dinuba, CA

Satellite radiance puts Dinuba in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 87% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Dinuba.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

Where to go for a darker sky near Dinuba

Reedley, CA, about 5 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Dinuba. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Reedley, CA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

Dinuba against the rest of the dataset

Dinuba, CA has a population of about 25,833, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Dinuba ranks 2,773 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.