What the night sky looks like over Pinole, CA

Pinole 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. That's brighter than 25.2% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

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.

Where to go for a darker sky near Pinole

2 miles from Pinole, straight-line, sits Hercules, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Pinole's own suburban edge band.

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

Pinole against the rest of the dataset

Pinole, CA has a population of about 18,663, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Pinole ranks 803 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.