How Far is Mercury from Earth?
The distance of Mercury from Earth is currently 117,611,681 kilometers, equivalent to 0.786186 Astronomical Units. Light takes 6 minutes and 32.3103 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 0.54903596 Astronomical Units, or 82,134,610 kilometers:
NOTE: values for the closest approach are computed with a sampling interval of 1 day.