Its distance from Earth defines the astronomical unit, which is about 1.496 × 108 kilometres or about 8 light-minutes. Its diameter is about 1,391,400 km (864,600 mi), 109 times that of Earth . The Sun 's mass is about 330,000 times that of Earth , making up about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System. The maximum distance of the Sun to the Earth is around 94.5 million miles (152 million km. The average distance from the Sun to the Earth is 92,957,130 miles (149,600,000 km). What is an astronomical unit (AU)? The so-called astronomical unit corresponds to the average distance from the Sun , about 93 million miles (150 million km). Though the average distance between the sun and the earth is around 149.598 million kilometers . In actuality, the Sun distance to Earth varies around 3% as the earth orbits the sun. Calculate Earth 's distance from the Sun with our solar distance calculator. See live AU, km, and mile measurements with orbital visualization and perihelion/aphelion tracking.
