Now in the first week of February 2025, Venus is approaching its peak brightness. Here is a picture of it near the waxing crescent moon while at a brightness magnitude of -4.8.

This makes it 23 times as bright as Mars, which had a magnitude of -1.4 in the photos following its lunar eclipse three weeks ago:

Venus has almost twice the diameter of Mars (which itself has twice the diameter of the moon), and presently it is also only 75% as far from Earth as is Mars.