As of November 2016, Venus takes 224.7 Earth days to orbit the Sun.
 With an apparent movement of the Sun in Earth's sky at a rate of about 1/day eastward, which is one apparent Sun or Moon diameter every 12 hours
75 Earth days (making the Venusian solar day shorter than Mercury's 176 Earth days  the 116-day figure is close to the average number of days it takes Mercury to slip underneath the Earth in its orbit)

