What the night sky looks like over South Gate, CA

Satellite radiance puts South Gate in the urban band. Sky glow overhead most nights. Typically only planets, the Moon, and a handful of the brightest stars are visible. That's brighter than 87.6% of the 3,206 US cities in this dataset.

The number comes from orbit, not a stargazer's logbook, so treat it as an estimate of sky glow rather than a certified Bortle class.

The nearest darker sky to South Gate

Pico Rivera, CA, about 7 miles away as the crow flies, measures in the suburban band, one step darker than South Gate. Actual driving distance will run longer than that straight-line figure.

Pico Rivera, CA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

South Gate against the rest of the dataset

South Gate, CA counts roughly 90,805 residents, among the 3,206 US cities this site tracks. Among all 3,206 cities here, South Gate ranks 2,794 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.