Lynwood, CA Night Sky Brightness
Lynwood, CA: how dark is the sky here?
Lynwood 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. That's brighter than 91.7% of the 3,206 US 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 - see the Bortle scale guide for where they can disagree.
The nearest darker sky to Lynwood
6 miles from Lynwood, straight-line, sits Carson, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Lynwood's own urban band.
Carson, 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 Lynwood compares nationally
About 63,596 people live in Lynwood, CA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Lynwood places 2,926 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order, ranked by the method in the methodology guide.