Santee, CA: how dark is the sky here?

Santee 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. Santee's sky is brighter than 34.6% of the 3,206 cities in this dataset.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

Where to go for a darker sky near Santee

9 miles from Santee, straight-line, sits Poway, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Santee's own suburban edge band.

Poway, 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 Santee compares nationally

Santee, CA counts roughly 59,104 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Santee places 1,103 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.