Lakewood, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Lakewood reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 65% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Lakewood.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

The nearest darker sky to Lakewood

7 miles from Lakewood, straight-line, sits Seal Beach, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Lakewood's own suburban band.

Seal Beach, 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 Lakewood compares nationally

Lakewood, CA counts roughly 78,494 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Lakewood places 2,074 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.