How many hours and days does it take Earth to rotate around it's axis?

Believe it or not, days and years are based on those movements!
It takes the Earth 1 day to rotate around his own axis.


The Sidereal rotation period depends on the rotation of the Earth relative to the fixed distant stars (not the Sun) and is 0.99726968 days or 23 hours 56 minutes and 4.100 seconds.



It takes the Earth 1 year (365.25 days, ergo the leap year) to orbit around the sun.