What Are My Coordinates?
Tap Use my location to get your current GPS latitude and longitude in decimal degrees (DD), degrees-minutes-seconds (DMS), and degrees-decimal-minutes (DDM), or paste coordinates in any format to convert and view them on the map.
How Your Current GPS Coordinates Are Measured and Formatted
This coordinate lookup reads your device’s WGS84 latitude, longitude, and horizontal accuracy radius in real time via the browser Geolocation API and converts the position simultaneously into Decimal Degrees (DD), Degrees-Minutes-Seconds (DMS), and Degrees Decimal Minutes (DDM). No network request is required to convert coordinates: all format parsing, rounding, and hemisphere conversions run locally in your browser.
Understanding DD, DMS, and DDM Coordinate Formats
All modern GPS receivers, smartphones, aviation charts, and web mapping platforms reference the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84 / EPSG:4326) ellipsoid, where latitude measures angular distance north or south of the Equator (-90° to +90°) and longitude measures angular distance east or west of the Prime Meridian in Greenwich (-180° to +180°):
- Decimal Degrees (DD): Writes latitude and longitude as signed decimal numbers to 6 decimal places (for example,
35.779600, -78.638200). Positive latitudes are North (N), negative latitudes are South (S), positive longitudes are East (E), and negative longitudes are West (W). At six decimal places, one unit equals approximately 0.11 meters (4.3 inches) of latitude. - Degrees, Minutes, Seconds (DMS): Divides each degree into 60 arcminutes (
′) and each arcminute into 60 arcseconds (″), such as35° 46′ 46.6″ N, 78° 38′ 17.5″ W. One arcsecond of latitude equals roughly 30.87 meters (101.3 feet) on the ground. - Degrees Decimal Minutes (DDM): Combines integer degrees with decimal minutes (
35° 46.776′ N, 78° 38.292′ W), the standard notation used by U.S. Coast Guard marine navigation, search-and-rescue beacons, and geocaching waypoints.
GPS Accuracy and Related Coordinate Tools
Outdoor smartphone GPS typically achieves 3 to 15 meters of horizontal accuracy, whereas indoor Wi-Fi or desktop IP positioning may report an uncertainty circle of 50 to several thousand meters. Need Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) easting and northing values or want to look up coordinates from a street address? Use GPS Coordinate Converter (DD, DMS, DDM & UTM), Address to Coordinates, or Coordinates to County Lookup.