银河年（英语：galactic year），也称为宇宙年（cosmic year），是太阳系在轨道上绕着银河系中心公转一周的时间，估计在2.25亿至2.5亿“地球年”之间。

银河年相较于地球年（地球在轨道上绕着太阳转一圈的时间间隔）和月（月球在轨道上绕着地球转一圈的时间间隔），可以提供一个更“易于理解”的单位来说明宇宙和地质时代的期间。相较之下，“十亿年”（billion years）的尺度对于地质是太大的单位而不适用，“百万年”（million years）又太小会呈现相当大的数字。

The galactic year, also known as a cosmic year, is the duration of time required for the Solar System to orbit once around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Estimates of the length of one orbit range from 225 to 250 million terrestrial years. The Solar System is traveling at an average speed of 828,000 km/h (230 km/s) or 514,000 mph (143 mi/s) within its trajectory around the galactic center, a speed at which an object could circumnavigate the Earth's equator in 2 minutes and 54 seconds; that speed corresponds to approximately one 1300th of the speed of light.