Solana Beach, CA's night sky, measured from orbit

Solana Beach's sky measures suburban here. Light dome dominates much of the sky. Only the brightest stars and planets stand out clearly. Only 55.6% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Solana Beach.

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

Where to go for a darker sky near Solana Beach

Poway, CA, about 14 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the rural band, one step darker than Solana Beach. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

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 Solana Beach compares nationally

Solana Beach, CA has a population of about 12,868, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Solana Beach places 1,774 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.