text: the average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometres (238,857 miles, why do i say average because the orbit of the moon to the earth is elliptical, so sometimes it is bigger than that number and sometimes it is smaller than that number.  An elliptical orbit is an oval orbit, to say it in shorter words, and instead of having one center it has two, called foci, it revolves around those two points to create the orbit that it travels in.