Oxnard, CA: how dark is the sky here?

Oxnard 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. Oxnard's sky is brighter than 31.8% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

Where to go for a darker sky near Oxnard

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Carpinteria, CA, roughly 21 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

Carpinteria, 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 Oxnard compares nationally

About 200,616 people live in Oxnard, CA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Oxnard places 1,015 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.