What is the approximate average distance between Mars and the Sun?

The approximate average distance between Mars and the Sun is 228 million kilometres.

Mars follows an elliptical orbit, so its actual distance changes during each Martian year. Its average orbital distance is about 1.52 astronomical units, with one astronomical unit defined as Earth’s average distance from the Sun.

Mars is therefore farther from the Sun than Earth but much closer than Jupiter. Its greater distance contributes to colder surface conditions and a longer orbital period of about 687 Earth days.

The figure is an average, not a constant measurement. Mars reaches perihelion, its closest orbital point, and aphelion, its farthest point, at different distances. Confusing Mars’s orbital distance with its distance from Earth is a common mistake, because the Earth–Mars distance changes substantially as both planets move around the Sun.