How high could you jump on the Moon?
You leave the ground at the same speed wherever you are. Weaker gravity simply lets you keep going for longer.
Almost exactly an on Earth
0.5 m is higher than 4 of the 10 references on this page.
Reference figures are measurements and are rounded; the unit conversion behind them is exact.
| Reference | Size | Yours ÷ theirs | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| on the Sun | 0.0179 m | 27.9× | |
| on Jupiter | 0.198 m | 2.53× | |
| on Neptune | 0.44 m | 1.14× | |
| on Saturn | 0.47 m | 1.06× | |
| on Earth | 0.5 m | 1× | |
| on Venus | 0.553 m | 0.904× | |
| on Mars | 1.32 m | 0.379× | |
| on the Moon | 3.03 m | 0.165× | |
| on Pluto | 7.91 m | 1/15.8 | |
| on Ceres | 18.2 m | 1/36.3 |
Worth knowing
- A 0.5 m standing jump on Earth becomes a 3 m jump on the Moon — but you also fall back six times more slowly, taking about 4.5 seconds.
- On Ceres the escape velocity is only 510 m/s, so a jump is still very far from leaving. On Deimos, a hard jump would.
Frequently asked
How high could you jump on the Moon?
About six times as high as on Earth, so a 50 cm vertical becomes 3 m. Apollo astronauts jumped far less than that because their suits were rigid and heavy.
Would you fall more slowly too?
Yes. Time in the air scales as the square root of the height divided by gravity, so a lunar jump lasts about 2.4 times as long as an Earth one of the same effort.