Newark, CA Night Sky Brightness
Newark, CA's night sky, measured from orbit
Newark's sky measures rural here. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Newark's sky is brighter than 4.3% 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, explained in the Bortle scale guide.
The nearest darker sky to Newark
147 miles from Newark, straight-line, sits Avenal, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Newark's own rural band.
Avenal, 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 Newark compares nationally
Newark, CA has a population of about 46,254, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Newark's position, 138 of 3,206, darkest to brightest, comes from the sampling method the methodology guide sets out.