Long Beach, CA: how dark is the sky here?

Long Beach reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Long Beach's sky is brighter than 90.1% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

How far Long Beach is from a meaningfully darker sky

Lakewood, CA, about 5 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Long Beach. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Lakewood, 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 Long Beach compares nationally

About 450,901 people live in Long Beach, CA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Long Beach places 2,874 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.