How Far is Mercury from Earth?
The distance of Mercury from Earth is currently 178,380,250 kilometers, equivalent to 1.192398 Astronomical Units. Light takes 9 minutes and 55.0125 seconds to travel from Mercury and arrive to us.
The following chart shows the distance of Mercury from Earth as a function of time. In the chart the distance data is measured in Astronomical Units and sampled with an interval of 1 day.
The value of the reported distance might be somewhat inaccurate around the times of closest approach for objects passing extremely close to Earth. The value of the distance of Mercury from Earth is also available as a real time updated value in the Live Position and Data Tracker.
Closest approach of Mercury to Earth
Between January 2013 and December 2100 the closest approach of Mercury to Earth happens on Sun May 31 2015 at a distance of 0.54903598 Astronomical Units, or 82,134,613 kilometers:
NOTE: values for the closest approach are computed with a sampling interval of 1 day.