Uranus is approximately 1.8 billion miles (about 2.9 billion kilometers) away from the Sun on average. This distance corresponds to about 19 astronomical units (AU), where 1 AU is the distance from the Earth to the Sun

. Because Uranus has an elliptical orbit, its distance from the Sun varies between about 1.7 billion miles (2.7 billion km) at its closest (perihelion) and about 1.86 billion miles (3 billion km) at its farthest (aphelion)

. At this distance, sunlight takes roughly 2 hours and 40 minutes to reach Uranus

. Uranus orbits the Sun once every 84 Earth years, traveling this vast distance in a long elliptical path