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.

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 places 3,008 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.