The Sun is approximately 0.0000158 light years away from Earth. This distance corresponds to about 1 astronomical unit (AU), which is roughly 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers. In terms of light travel time, sunlight takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth, which is about 8.3 light minutes rather than light years. Because the Sun is so close to us within our solar system, distances to it are conventionally measured in AU or light minutes, not light years, which are used for much larger cosmic distances