Uranus
Tipped 98 degrees onto its side, so each pole gets 42 years of continuous sunlight.
Where it is right now
Uranus is in Taurus, 19.9 AU away, magnitude 5.8.
Computed for 2 August 2026, 17:00 UTC, and recomputed at least hourly. This page is cached, so treat the line above as accurate to the hour rather than to the second. The map shows the live position.
Position from astronomy-engine's VSOP87-derived series, accurate to about an arcsecond.
Facts
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- Mean radius
- 25,362 kmSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Fact Sheet
- Axial tilt
- 97.8 degrees, effectively rolling along its orbitSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Fact Sheet
- Seasons
- 42 years of daylight then 42 of darkness at each poleSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Fact Sheet
- Coldest measured
- minus 224 C, the lowest planetary temperature recordedSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Fact Sheet
- Orbit
- 19.19 AU average, one lap every 84 yearsSource: NASA/JPL Approximate Positions of the Major Planets (J2000)
- Visits
- one, Voyager 2 in January 1986Source: NASA/JPL Planetary Fact Sheet
Physical size
- Mean radius
- 25,362 km
- Diameter
- 50,724 km across
Orbit
Elements are heliocentric, referred to the J2000.0 ecliptic.
- Average distance from the Sun
- 19.189 AU (2,870.7 million km)
- Closest and furthest
- 18.282 AU (2,735.0 million km) to 20.096 AU (3,006.3 million km)
- Eccentricity
- 0.0473, almost circular
- Inclination to the ecliptic
- 0.77 degrees
- Orbital period
- 84.0 years (30,685 days)
- Longitude of ascending node
- 74.02 degrees
- Argument of periapsis
- 96.94 degrees
- Mean anomaly at J2000.0
- 142.28 degrees
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