Santa Fe Springs, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Santa Fe Springs reads as urban on this dataset's scale. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. Santa Fe Springs's sky is brighter than 98.3% 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.

How far Santa Fe Springs is from a meaningfully darker sky

Whittier, CA, about 3 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than Santa Fe Springs. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Whittier, 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 Santa Fe Springs compares nationally

Santa Fe Springs, CA has a population of about 18,683, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Santa Fe Springs places 3,134 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.