Venus
Earth's twin by size and nothing else: 92 atmospheres of carbon dioxide at 464 C.
Where it is right now
Venus is in Virgo, 0.79 AU away, magnitude -4.3.
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
- 6,051.8 km, 95 percent of Earth'sSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Fact Sheet
- Surface temperature
- 464 C, hot enough to melt lead, day and night alikeSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Fact Sheet
- Surface pressure
- 92 bar, the same as 900 m down in Earth's oceanSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Fact Sheet
- Day
- 243 Earth days, and it turns backwardsSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Fact Sheet
- Orbit
- 0.723 AU average, eccentricity 0.007, the roundest orbit of the eightSource: NASA/JPL Approximate Positions of the Major Planets (J2000)
- Brightness
- magnitude minus 4.6 at best, third brightest object in the skySource: NASA/JPL Planetary Fact Sheet
Physical size
- Mean radius
- 6,052 km
- Diameter
- 12,104 km across
Orbit
Elements are heliocentric, referred to the J2000.0 ecliptic.
- Average distance from the Sun
- 0.723 AU (108.2 million km)
- Eccentricity
- 0.0068, almost perfectly circular
- Inclination to the ecliptic
- 3.39 degrees
- Orbital period
- 224.7 days
- Longitude of ascending node
- 76.68 degrees
- Argument of periapsis
- 54.92 degrees
- Mean anomaly at J2000.0
- 50.38 degrees
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