How far is Uranus from Earth right now?
Distance over the next three years
Distance between the centers of Earth and Uranus. Hover or tap the chart to read any date.
Why the distance changes
Uranus takes 84 years to go around the Sun, so from year to year its distance changes mainly because of where Earth is in its own orbit. It is closest about once a year, when Earth passes between Uranus and the Sun.
Between 2000 and 2050, Uranus is closest on March 9, 2050, at 2.59 billion km (1.61 billion miles), and farthest on March 14, 2009, at 3.16 billion km (1.96 billion miles).
Uranus is just about visible to the unaided eye under very dark skies near its closest approach, if you know exactly where to look. Light takes more than two and a half hours to reach us from it.
How this is calculated
Your browser calculates the position of Uranus for the current moment from your device's clock, using the Astronomy Engine library, which is based on the VSOP87 planetary theory. We checked its Earth distances against NASA JPL data (via Astropy) for dates from 1950 to 2045: they agree to better than 0.02%. Distances are measured center to center.