Rocklin, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts Rocklin 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. Rocklin's sky is brighter than 22.4% of the 3,206 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 Rocklin

16 miles from Rocklin, straight-line, sits Rancho Cordova, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Rocklin's own suburban edge band.

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.

How Rocklin compares nationally

Rocklin, CA has a population of about 75,129, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Rocklin places 715 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.