Where is Jupiter right now?
Jupiter is currently about 928,901,147 kilometres from Earth, or 6.21 astronomical units, which puts a one-way radio signal 51.6 minutes out. In the sky it is 23 degrees from the Sun and low in the morning twilight.
This page is about where Jupiter is. For the planet itself, its size, its day, its moons and a photograph, see Jupiter.
Jupiter sits around 5.2 astronomical units from the Sun, and because that is so much further out than Earth, its distance from us barely changes how it looks. It runs between roughly 4.2 and 6.2 astronomical units over the course of a year, and Jupiter stays one of the brightest things in the night sky throughout, usually third after the Moon and Venus. What changes is when it is up, not whether it is worth looking at.
Today it is 23 degrees from the Sun and reaches its highest point about one and a half hours before the Sun does. It comes to opposition on 11 February 2027, when it will rise at sunset and be up all night.
Almost any optical aid shows the four Galilean moons in a line, and they move fast enough that the arrangement is visibly different from one night to the next. Io goes round in 42 hours. Binoculars steady enough to hold still are genuinely sufficient.
Juno has been in orbit since 2016 and is in its final extended mission. Two more are on the way: ESA's JUICE, launched in 2023 for Ganymede, and NASA's Europa Clipper, launched in 2024, both arriving in the early 2030s.