Lawndale, CA Night Sky Brightness
Lawndale, CA's night sky, measured from orbit
Lawndale's sky measures urban here. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 94.4% 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 Lawndale
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Hermosa Beach, CA, roughly 3 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban edge. Road distance will be more.
Hermosa 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 Lawndale compares nationally
Lawndale, CA counts roughly 30,160 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Lawndale's position, 3,008 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.