Rancho Cordova, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Rancho Cordova reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. That's brighter than 9.9% 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 Rancho Cordova

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Truckee, CA, roughly 77 miles away in a straight line, rated dark sky. Road distance will be more.

Truckee, 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 Rancho Cordova compares nationally

About 84,113 people live in Rancho Cordova, CA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Rancho Cordova places 318 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.