Gardena, CA Night Sky Brightness
Gardena, CA's night sky, measured from orbit
Gardena reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 94.7% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
Where to go for a darker sky near Gardena
5 miles from Gardena, straight-line, sits Carson, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Gardena's own urban band.
Carson, 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 Gardena compares nationally
Gardena, CA counts roughly 58,921 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Gardena's position, 3,020 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.