What the night sky looks like over Fremont, CA

Fremont reads as inner-city on this dataset's scale. Among the brightest skies in this dataset. Usually just the Moon and a few of the brightest stars or planets cut through. Fremont's sky is brighter than 99.2% 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.

How far Fremont is from a meaningfully darker sky

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Newark, CA, roughly 5 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

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

Fremont against the rest of the dataset

Fremont, CA has a population of about 228,192, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Fremont ranks 3,161 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.