Yes — on Venus, a day is longer than a year. Venus takes about 243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis, but only about 225 Earth days to complete one orbit around the Sun. If you could stand on its surface (you cannot — more on that below), you would celebrate your first birthday before a single Venusian day had ended.

The slowest spin in the solar system

Venus rotates more slowly than any other planet, and to make things stranger, it spins backwards — retrograde — compared to most planets. The Sun would rise in the west and set in the east, if you could see the Sun at all through the crushing cloud cover.

Scientists think Venus may once have spun normally, but the gravitational pull of the Sun on its enormously thick atmosphere gradually braked and reversed its rotation over billions of years.

Why you will never experience it

Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, with surface temperatures around 465°C — hotter than Mercury, despite being further from the Sun. Its atmosphere is 96% carbon dioxide, creating a runaway greenhouse effect, and the surface pressure would crush you like being a kilometre underwater. Soviet Venera landers survived there for barely two hours at most.

A day with two sunrises?

There is one more oddity. Because Venus's rotation is so slow and its orbit relatively quick, the time from one sunrise to the next — the solar day — is about 117 Earth days. The planet's lazy spin turns the familiar rhythm of day and night into something utterly alien.