What Is My Latitude and Longitude?
Find your GPS coordinates in decimal degrees, degrees-minutes-seconds and UTM, ready to copy. Your elevation appears too.
Your coordinates
Choose a location to see its coordinates.
Latitude, longitude
- Decimal degrees
- Degrees, minutes, seconds
- Degrees, decimal minutes
- UTM (WGS84)
Elevation here
—ft
Choose a location to see its elevation.
…ft
Looking up elevation…
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How accurate is this?
Data sources:
Your location at a glance
Check the same point with the other location tools. After you choose a location, each link opens on that spot.
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- What school district am I in
- What congressional district am I in
- What township am I in
- Halfway between two places
- Distance between two places
How it works
Your browser asks your device for its position through the standard Geolocation API. Phones use GPS and nearby networks; computers usually estimate from Wi-Fi. We convert the result into the common formats in your browser: UTM uses the WGS84 ellipsoid and the transverse Mercator formulas published by USGS.
Reading the formats
- Decimal degrees — what most apps and maps accept; paste it straight into a search box.
- Degrees, minutes, seconds — used on paper maps and in surveying.
- Degrees, decimal minutes — common on marine and aviation GPS units.
- UTM — meters within a numbered zone; handy for measuring distances on topo maps.
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- What school district am I in
- What congressional district am I in
- What township am I in
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Frequently asked questions
How do I find my latitude and longitude?
Tap "Find my coordinates" and allow location access. Your browser asks your device for its position, and the coordinates appear in four formats with copy buttons.
How accurate are my coordinates?
That depends on your device. The card shows the accuracy your device reports. Phones outdoors with GPS are usually far more precise than laptops, which often estimate position from Wi-Fi networks.
What is the difference between decimal degrees and DMS?
They are two ways to write the same position. Decimal degrees use one number per axis (39.7392); degrees, minutes, seconds split it into 60ths (39°44'21.1"). South and west are negative in decimal form and marked S or W in DMS.
What is UTM?
Universal Transverse Mercator divides the world into 60 zones, each 6° of longitude wide, and gives positions in meters east (easting) and north (northing) within the zone. It is common on topographic maps and in search and rescue.
Is my location stored?
The coordinates are worked out in your browser. To show the elevation and place name we send them to our server, which keeps the lookup result for up to 90 days without anything that identifies you.
Sources
- W3C Geolocation API — how the browser reports your position and its accuracy
- Snyder, Map Projections — A Working Manual (USGS PP 1395) — UTM (transverse Mercator) formulas
- USGS Elevation Point Query Service — elevation at your coordinates (US)
- Terrain Tiles on AWS (Mapzen) — elevation outside the US
How each number is produced: methodology and data sources.