Today, the Earth will be closest to the Sun, that is, it will be in the perihelion, the point closest to the Sun. Today, the Earth will be 0.9833 AJ away from the Sun (the astronomical unit is the average distance between the Earth and the Sun. The difference between the two mentioned points is about 5,000,000 km. The Earth is slightly more than 147,000,000 km away from the Sun at the beginning of January, while that distance is slightly more than 152,000,000 at the beginning of June.