What the night sky looks like over La Puente, CA

Satellite radiance puts La Puente in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 87.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than La Puente.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near La Puente

West Covina, CA, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than La Puente. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

La Puente against the rest of the dataset

About 36,670 people live in La Puente, CA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, La Puente ranks 2,797 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.