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An astronomical unit (AU) is the equivalent of 150 million km / 93 million mi, and the Sun is 1 AU away from Earth. In light-years, the Sun is 0.00001581 light-years away, while in light minutes, the Sun is 8.20 light minutes away, or 500 light-seconds away from Earth.
As of June 30 2024, Earth is 94,523,203 miles (152,087,834 kilometers) away from the Sun, which is about 1.01664438076848 AU.
How Far Away is The Sun from Earth? The distance of The Sun from Earth is currently 152,097,581 kilometers, equivalent to 1.016710 Astronomical Units. Light takes 8 minutes and 27.3429 seconds to travel from The Sun and arrive to us.
This page shows The Sun location and other relevant astronomical data in real time. The celestial coordinates, magnitude, distances and speed are updated in real time and are computed using high quality data sets provided by the JPL Horizons ephemeris service (see acknowledgements for details).
The Sun is currently in the constellation of Gemini , at a distance of 152,098,565 kilometers from Earth. The current Right Ascension of The Sun is 06h 50m 44s and the Declination is +22° 55’ 20” (topocentric coordinates computed for Greenwich, UK ).
At its equator, the Sun completes one rotation in 25 Earth days. At its poles, the Sun rotates once on its axis every 36 Earth days. The part of the Sun we see from Earth – the part we call the surface – is the photosphere. The Sun doesn’t actually have a solid surface because it’s a ball of plasma.
Since the Earth rotates at a mean speed of one degree every four minutes, relative to the Sun, this 16-minute displacement corresponds to a shift eastward or westward of about four degrees in the apparent position of the Sun, compared with its mean position.
