DarkSkyCheck

What the night sky looks like over West Hollywood, CA

West Hollywood 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 98.2% 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 West Hollywood

The closest place in this dataset with a meaningfully darker sky is Beverly Hills, CA, roughly 2 miles away in a straight line, rated suburban. Road distance will be more.

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

West Hollywood against the rest of the dataset

About 34,371 people live in West Hollywood, CA, sized enough to appear in this dataset of 3,206 incorporated US cities. Among all 3,206 cities here, West Hollywood ranks 3,131 from darkest to brightest, 1 being the darkest measured.