What the night sky looks like over Placerville, CA

Placerville's sky measures suburban edge here. 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 28.9% 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.

The nearest darker sky to Placerville

Rancho Cordova, CA, about 26 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Placerville. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

Placerville against the rest of the dataset

Placerville, CA has a population of about 10,695, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Placerville ranks 922 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.