It takes 365 1/4 solar days, 24 hours long each, for the Earth to complete that journey at a mean distance of 93 million miles from the parent sun, Sol, a G type middle-sized yellow star.Earth itself has a large satellite whirling around it, the Moon, 240, 000 miles out.he planet is tilted at an angle of 23.5' and its spinning axis is 23.93 hours and to orbit the sun it takes 365.26 days. the earth is 93 million miles away from the sun (149.6 million km). big bounce · 8 years ago. Thumbs up.