Earth has a polite 23.5° tilt, giving us predictable seasons. But elsewhere, the angles get wild:
Mercury: Standing almost straight up at 0.03°. No seasons. Just eternal, scorching stability.
Venus: Flipped upside down with a 177° tilt. It spins backwards, the sun rising in the west.
Mars: A comfortable 25° tilt. Seasons like Earth, but twice as long.
Jupiter: A modest 3° tilt. Barely any seasonal change on the gas giant.
Saturn: A noticeable 27° tilt. Those glorious rings angle toward and away from the Sun over its 29-year orbit.
Uranus: The true rebel. Tilted 98°, it literally rolls on its side like a barrel. Its poles point almost directly at the Sun, creating 42-year periods of continuous daylight followed by 42 years of darkness.
Neptune: A moderate 28° tilt. Seasons lasting 40 years each.
Pluto: The dwarf planet outsider. Tilted 120°, it spins retrograde and sideways. With its 248-year orbit, this extreme tilt creates seasons that stretch for decades—long, frozen, twilight eras that define existence on this distant world.
Think about the sheer variety. On Uranus, "summer" means the Sun hanging directly over one pole for 42 straight years. On Pluto, seasons last longer than most human lifetimes. The concept of "time of year" becomes almost meaningless when a single winter could span generations.
Our solar system isn't a neat line of spinning tops. It's a chaotic tilt-a-whirl, where every world has its own unique lean, its own strange relationship with the Sun. We live on one of the most "normal" ones which, in this cosmic context, makes us the true oddities.