These are the closest matches to the Sun out to 45 ly; some are wide binaries like Alpha Centauri, with just enough room for a few planets;
some are very close binaries, and it is possible that planets could orbit at a cofortable distance around the pair as if they were singular...
Nearby Sun-like stars (all these stars are G class dwarfs)
best matches in red
Alpha Centauri A (Distance from Sol: 4.395 ly) (Luminosity 1.567 x Sol) (warning- binary system)
Tau Ceti 11.9 ly (Lum 0.463 x Sol) class
Eta Cassiopeiae 19.4149 ly, lum 1.287 x Sol
82 Eridani 19.77 ly, lum 0.632 x Sol
Delta Pavonis 19.92 ly, lum 1.231 x Sol
Xi Bootis 21.85 ly, lum 1.440 x Sol (warning variable)
Beta Canum Venaticorum 27.3 ly, lum 1.203 x Sol (warning close orbiting binary pair)
61 Virginis 27.8 ly, lum 0.805 x Sol
Gliese 666 28.7 ly, lum 0.41 x Sol
Beta Comae Berenices 29.86 ly, lum 1.447 x Sol
Kappa Ceti 29.87 ly, lum 0.851 x Sol (possible close binary)
Gliese 442 30.14 ly, lum 0.815 x Sol
61 Ursae Majoris 31.12 ly lum 0.589 x Sol
Alpha Mensae 33.1 ly, lum 0.833 x Sol
Iota Persei 34.36 ly, lum 2.321 x Sol
Delta Trianguli 35.38 ly, lum 1.161 x Sol (close orbiting binary)
11 Leonis Minoris 36.46 ly, 0.746 x Sol
Gliese 534.1 37 ly, lum 0.5 x Sol
Lambda Serpentis 38.34 ly, lum 2.049 x Sol (close orbiting binary)
HR 6439 38 ly, lum 0.4 x Sol
Zeta 2 Reticuli 39.4ly lum 1.020 x Sol
Zeta 1 Reticuli 39.5 ly, lum 0.786 x Sol
Zeta Trianguli Australis 39.48 ly, lum1.399 x Sol (close orbiting binary)
85 Pegasi 40.5 ly, lum 0.64 x Sol (binary system)
55 Cancri 40.9 ly, lum 0.57 x Sol (several detected planets)
Gliese 302 41ly, lum 0.567 x Sol
Gliese 67 41.2 ly lum 1.45 x Sol (close orbiting binary)
Lambda Aurigae 41.2 ly, lum 1.83 x Sol
Gliese 95 41.35 ly, lum 0.406 x Sol
Gliese 620.1 42 ly, lum 1.01 x Sol
Gliese 722 42.3 ly, lum 0.93 x Sol
58 Eridani 43.4 ly, lum 0.98 x Sol
HR 4489 43.46 ly, lum 0.4 x Sol
Gliese 853 44.39 ly, lum 1.127 x Sol
HR 8935 45 ly, lum 0.8 x Sol
18 Scorpii 45.7 ly, lum 1.08 x Sol
47 Ursae Majoris 45.9 ly, lum 1.679 x Sol (at least one planet)
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