How long is daytime and nighttime on Venus?
The time from one sunrise to the next on Venus is 116.75 Earth days…so, 58.38 Earth days of daytime and the same of nighttime. Many people make the mistake of assuming that you can simply halve the rotation period…but it’s just not that simple when the rotation period is so slow. It’s the same reason why, on Earth, our our “clock day” on Earth is 24 hours but our actual rotation time is 23 hours and 56 minutes. The distance each planet moves in its orbit around the sun combined with its rotation both affect the time between sunrises.
