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Solar System Scale Model Calculator

Solar System Model Inputs

Calculate the scaled planet diameters and planet-sun distances for a solar system model.
Enter scale or diameter or distance, select to show table and/or map below, select options, then press Calculate.
Examples:    Scale 1 : 100000000   or   Sun Diameter = 10 cm   or   Neptune Distance from Sun = 1000 ft.
Model scale: 1 :
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  • Mercury
  • Venus
  • Earth
  • Mars
  • Ceres - Asteroid Belt
  • Jupiter
  • Saturn
  • Uranus
  • Neptune
  • Pluto - Kuiper Belt
  • Eris - Scattered Disk
  • Planet9 - Distant Detached Objects

Solar System Model Table

  • Rings
  • Moons
  • Stars & Galaxies
  • US units (mi/ft/in)
  • Min & Max distances
  • Astronomical Units
  • Light travel times
Model scale:  1 : 8,850,640
REAL DISTANCES PLANETS MODEL DISTANCES
Diameter Orbit Radius   Diameter Orbit Radius
average average   average average
mi mi   in mi
864,900   Sun 6,192  
3,032 35,980,000 Mercury 21.70 4.066
7,519 67,230,000 Venus 53.82 7.596
7,916 92,960,000 Earth 56.67 10.50
4,212 141,600,000 Mars 30.15 16.00
590.3 257,100,000 Ceres
Asteroid Belt
4.226 29.05
86,870 483,800,000 Jupiter 621.9 54.66
72,390 890,400,000 Saturn 518.2 100.6
31,520 1,788,000,000 Uranus 225.6 202.0
30,600 2,798,000,000 Neptune 219.1 316.1
1,474 3,650,000,000 Pluto
Kuiper Belt
10.55 412.4
Orbits of objects beyond Neptune are highly eccentric ellipses, not circles.

Solar System Model Map

Latitude:
Longitude:
You may right-click (or equivalent gesture) on the map to change latitude & longitude.
Model scale:  1 : 8,850,640
Map not shown.