What is Venus's orbital period around the Sun, in Earth days?

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Venus takes 224.7 Earth days to complete one orbit around the Sun.

This interval is Venus’s orbital period, or its year. Venus travels around the Sun at an average distance of about 108 million kilometres, following the most nearly circular planetary orbit in the Solar System. Its year is shorter than Earth’s because Venus is closer to the Sun and moves faster along its orbit.

The figure is easy to mix up with other planetary periods. Mercury’s year lasts about 88 Earth days, Earth’s lasts about 365.2 days, and Mars’s lasts about 687 days. Those values belong to different planets, not Venus.

Venus’s rotation creates another famous contrast: it spins once on its axis in about 243 Earth days, longer than its year. Because it rotates retrograde, a solar day—from one sunrise to the next—lasts about 117 Earth days.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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