How Far is Mercury from Earth?
The distance of Mercury from Earth is currently 135,295,322 kilometers, equivalent to 0.904393 Astronomical Units. Light takes 7 minutes and 31.2966 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 1900 and January 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.