Earth makes a full spin every 24 hours and orbits the Sun every 365 days - so we get hundreds of days for every year. Venus has the opposite problem. It’s so lazy about spinning that the planet finishes a full orbit around the Sun before it manages to complete a single rotation.
One full Venus day - sunrise to sunrise - takes about 243 Earth days. One full Venus year - orbit completion - takes only 225 Earth days. So a Venus day really is longer than a Venus year.
There’s another oddity: Venus spins backwards compared to almost every other planet. On Earth, the Sun rises in the east. On Venus, if you could survive its 900°F surface, you’d see the Sun rising in the west and setting in the east. Scientists think Venus was probably whacked by something huge in its early history that flipped its rotation upside down.
