San Fernando, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Satellite radiance puts San Fernando in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Only 90.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than San Fernando.

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

How far San Fernando is from a meaningfully darker sky

13 miles from San Fernando, straight-line, sits Glendale, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than San Fernando's own urban band.

Glendale, 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 San Fernando compares nationally

About 23,488 people live in San Fernando, CA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. San Fernando places 2,889 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.