Home › Solar system live › The Sun
The Sun is 1.000 AU (149.6 million km) from Earth right now; its light takes 8 min 19 s to reach us. ()
The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star that holds 99.86% of all the mass in the Solar System. Its light takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth.
Positions from NASA JPL Horizons; physical constants from the IAU and JPL. Distances are centre to centre.
As of 4 October 2026, the Sun is 1.000 AU (149.6 million km) from Earth. Sunlight takes 8 min 19 s to arrive. The distance changes by about 5 million km over the year: closest in early January, farthest in early July.
The Sun’s radius is 695,700 km — about 109 times Earth’s — and about 1.3 million Earths would fit inside it. Its mass is 1.988 × 10^30 kg.
At the visible surface, gravity is 274 m/s², about 28 times Earth’s.