Size Parade

Sun size comparison

The Sun next to Jupiter, Saturn and Earth, to scale. Tap Earth and press Zoom to selected to find it.

Sun size comparison: the tool

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    Reported heights, each with its source: league, tour and government pages, or the source Wikidata cites. Fan-site guesses are left out. How we pick them.

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        The Sun imaged by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory
        Photo: NASA/SDO (AIA), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

        The sizes

        • Sun: 1,391,400 km (864,576 mi) across.
        • Jupiter: 142,984 km (88,846 mi) across.
        • Saturn: 120,536 km (74,898 mi) across.
        • Earth: 12,756 km (7,926 mi) across.
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        Sun
        Twice the volumetric mean radius of 695,700 km.        		1,391,400 km (864,576 mi) acrossNASA NSSDC
        Jupiter
        Equatorial diameter.        		142,984 km (88,846 mi) acrossNASA NSSDC
        Saturn
        Equatorial diameter.        		120,536 km (74,898 mi) acrossNASA NSSDC, NASA NSSDC
        Earth
        Equatorial diameter.        		12,756 km (7,926 mi) acrossNASA NSSDC

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        Drawings are to scale on the measured dimension. The other proportions of each silhouette are approximate.

        Questions

        How much bigger is Sun than Jupiter?

        Sun is 1,391,400 km (864,576 mi) across and Jupiter is 142,984 km (88,846 mi), so about 9.7 times as wide. Figures from the sources listed below.

        How many times bigger is the largest one here than the smallest?

        Sun (1,391,400 km (864,576 mi)) is about 109.1 times the diameter of Earth (12,756 km (7,926 mi)).

        Which is the biggest on this page?

        Sun, at 1,391,400 km (864,576 mi) across, from NASA NSSDC.

        Sources

        1. NASA NSSDC: Sun Fact Sheet (checked 2026-10-02)
        2. NASA NSSDC: Planetary Fact Sheet (checked 2026-10-02)
        3. NASA NSSDC: Saturnian Rings Fact Sheet (checked 2026-10-02)

        Last checked: 5 October 2026