Riverbank, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Riverbank 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. Only 28.8% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Riverbank.

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

Where to go for a darker sky near Riverbank

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Rio Vista, CA, roughly 52 miles away in a straight line, rated rural. Road distance will be more.

Rio Vista, 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 Riverbank compares nationally

About 25,625 people live in Riverbank, CA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Riverbank places 920 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.