Malibu, CA: how dark is the sky here?

Malibu reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 5.3% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Malibu

California City, CA, about 93 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the dark sky band, one step darker than Malibu. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

California 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 Malibu compares nationally

About 10,298 people live in Malibu, CA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Malibu places 170 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.