{"id":473217,"date":"2026-05-10T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/how-far-is-the-moon-from-earth-encyclopedia-britannica\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:07:00","slug":"how-far-is-the-moon-from-earth-encyclopedia-britannica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/how-far-is-the-moon-from-earth-encyclopedia-britannica\/","title":{"rendered":"How Far Is the Moon From Earth? &#8211; Encyclopedia Britannica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Moon is approximately 384,000 km (238,600 miles) away from Earth, on average. The Moon orbits Earth in an elliptical pattern, which means that it is closer to Earth at some points and farther away at other points.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/How-Far-Is-the-Moon-From-Earth\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/How-Far-Is-the-Moon-From-Earth<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moon is approximately 384,000 km (238,600 miles) away from Earth, on average. The Moon orbits Earth in an elliptical pattern, which means that it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zurich","wpcat-8-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}