Pleasant Hill, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Pleasant Hill in the suburban edge band. 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 22.1% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

Note the source: a satellite reading of upward light, not a visual Bortle scale reading. The two measure related but different things.

The nearest darker sky to Pleasant Hill

7 miles from Pleasant Hill, straight-line, sits Orinda, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Pleasant Hill's own suburban edge band.

Orinda, 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 Pleasant Hill compares nationally

About 34,169 people live in Pleasant Hill, CA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Pleasant Hill places 705 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.