What the night sky looks like over Palm Springs, CA

Satellite radiance puts Palm Springs in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 90.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Palm Springs.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

The nearest darker sky to Palm Springs

5 miles from Palm Springs, straight-line, sits Cathedral City, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Palm Springs's own urban band.

Cathedral City, CA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

Palm Springs against the rest of the dataset

Palm Springs, CA counts roughly 45,453 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, Palm Springs ranks 2,888 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.