Marina, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Marina reads as suburban edge on this dataset's scale. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Marina's sky is brighter than 24.4% of the 3,206 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 Marina

4 miles from Marina, straight-line, sits Seaside, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Marina's own suburban edge band.

Seaside, 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 Marina compares nationally

Marina, CA has a population of about 23,047, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Marina places 780 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.