How far is Mercury from Earth today?
Earth – Mercury · 2 November 2026
101,124,736 km
101.1 million km
0.676 AU
light: 5 min 37 s
Value for the start of the day (UTC); once the page loads it updates live.
3D distance from the JPL “Keplerian Elements for Approximate Positions of the Major Planets” – accurate to about 0.01%. Earth and Mercury orbit the Sun at different speeds, so the distance keeps changing.
Distance over time
Where it is today
Top view of the plane of Earth’s orbit, compressed distance scale.
Upcoming closest approaches
| Date | Event | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 3 November 2026 | closest approach | 100.6 million km 0.673 AU |
| 4 November 2026 | inferior conjunction | 100.8 million km 0.674 AU |
| 18 February 2027 | inferior conjunction | 96.31 million km 0.644 AU |
| 21 February 2027 | closest approach | 95.37 million km 0.638 AU |
| 21 June 2027 | closest approach | 83.00 million km 0.555 AU |
| 23 June 2027 | inferior conjunction | 83.20 million km 0.556 AU |
| 18 October 2027 | closest approach | 99.42 million km 0.665 AU |
| 19 October 2027 | inferior conjunction | 99.87 million km 0.668 AU |