Dixon, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Dixon in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 36.1% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Dixon.

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

Where to go for a darker sky near Dixon

20 miles from Dixon, straight-line, sits Rio Vista, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Dixon's own suburban edge band.

Rio Vista, 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 Dixon compares nationally

Dixon, CA counts roughly 20,296 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Dixon places 1,150 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.