Earth At Perihelion 2025. This year perihelion is today, january 4, at 13:28 utc, with the earth about 147 million kilometers from the sun. Mute/unmute episode rewind 10 seconds.

At that point in its orbit, the earth is over 91 million from the sun, a difference of about three million miles from its farthest point, aphelion. Perihelion, the moment when our planet reaches its closest proximity to the sun, will occur on 4 january, 2025 at 1:22:32 p.m.