Seaside, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Seaside reads as rural on this dataset's scale. Little local light dome. Most stars are visible; the Milky Way is faint but often findable away from town lights. Seaside's sky is brighter than 6% 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 Seaside

101 miles from Seaside, straight-line, sits Atascadero, CA, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Seaside's own rural band.

Atascadero, 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 Seaside compares nationally

Seaside, CA counts roughly 31,524 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Seaside places 192 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.