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.

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 places 3,048 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.