Los Angeles, CA: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Los Angeles in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 85.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Los Angeles.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Los Angeles

Culver City, CA, about 1 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Los Angeles. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Culver City, 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 Los Angeles compares nationally

About 3,878,704 people live in Los Angeles, CA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Los Angeles places 2,736 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.