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.

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 places 3,020 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.