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.

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 places 138 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.