Pico Rivera, CA Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Pico Rivera, CA
Satellite radiance puts Pico Rivera in the suburban band. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 80.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Pico Rivera.
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 Bortle scale guide covers why.
How far Pico Rivera is from a meaningfully darker sky
9 miles from Pico Rivera, straight-line, sits San Marino, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Pico Rivera's own suburban band.
San Marino, CA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Pico Rivera against the rest of the dataset
Pico Rivera, CA has a population of about 59,363, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Pico Rivera ranks 2,579 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.