Maywood, CA Night Sky Brightness
Maywood, CA's night sky, measured from orbit
Maywood 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. Only 95.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Maywood.
Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
How far Maywood is from a meaningfully darker sky
5 miles from Maywood, straight-line, sits Monterey Park, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Maywood's own urban band.
Monterey Park, 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 Maywood compares nationally
Maywood, CA has a population of about 23,838, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Maywood's position, 3,048 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.