What the night sky looks like over San Bernardino, CA

San Bernardino reads as suburban on this dataset's scale. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 62.9% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than San Bernardino.

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 San Bernardino

Loma Linda, CA, about 7 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban edge band, one step darker than San Bernardino. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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

San Bernardino against the rest of the dataset

San Bernardino, CA counts roughly 224,775 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, San Bernardino ranks 2,005 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.