What the night sky looks like over El Centro, CA

El Centro's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. El Centro's sky is brighter than 90% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

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.

The nearest darker sky to El Centro

4 miles from El Centro, straight-line, sits Imperial, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than El Centro's own urban band.

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

El Centro against the rest of the dataset

About 44,230 people live in El Centro, CA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, El Centro ranks 2,868 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.