Stanton, CA Night Sky Brightness
What the night sky looks like over Stanton, CA
Stanton 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. That's brighter than 88.3% 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 Bortle scale guide covers why.
The nearest darker sky to Stanton
The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Garden Grove, CA, roughly 2 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.
Garden Grove, CA is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.
Stanton against the rest of the dataset
Stanton, CA has a population of about 41,188, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Among all 3,206 cities here, Stanton ranks 2,816 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured, by the sampling the methodology guide documents.