How long is a year on Pluto?
Data as of July 2026
248 Earth yearsone orbit of the Sun
A year on Pluto, one full trip round the Sun, lasts 90,560 Earth days, or 247.94 Earth years. Counted in Pluto's own days (sunrise to sunrise), that is about 14,200 Pluto days.
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What a Pluto year means
Pluto was discovered in 1930 and has not yet completed half an orbit since. Its path is so stretched that for 20 years of each orbit it comes closer to the Sun than Neptune, most recently from 1979 to 1999.
One year
90,560 Earth days
In Earth years
247.94
In Pluto days
about 14,200
If you are 30 on Earth
you'd be 0.12 in Pluto years
Distance from the Sun
39.48 AU
A day there
6.4 Earth days
Year length on every world
| World | One year | In its own days |
|---|---|---|
| Mercury | 88 Earth days | 0.5 |
| Venus | 225 Earth days | 1.9 |
| Earth | 365 Earth days | 365.25 |
| Mars | 687 Earth days | 669 |
| Jupiter | 11.9 Earth years | about 10,500 |
| Saturn | 29 Earth years | about 24,200 |
| Uranus | 84 Earth years | about 42,700 |
| Neptune | 165 Earth years | about 89,700 |
| Pluto | 248 Earth years | about 14,200 |
The farther out a world orbits, the longer its year, and not just because the path is longer: the Sun's pull is weaker out there, so the outer planets also move more slowly. In the interactive view, speed up time and watch the inner planets lap the outer ones.
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✓ Facts verified July 2026
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