What the night sky looks like over Indio, CA

Indio's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 91.2% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Indio.

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 Indio

6 miles from Indio, straight-line, sits Coachella, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Indio's own urban band.

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

Indio against the rest of the dataset

Indio, CA counts roughly 94,275 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Indio ranks 2,908 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.