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My GPS Coordinates: latitude and longitude, ready to copy
The readout below shows your position as coordinates the moment you allow location access — decimal degrees for apps, degrees-minutes-seconds for paper maps, and a link you can paste anywhere. Every format copies with one tap.
IP FIX
Latitudeyour latitude…
Longitudeyour longitude…
Accuracyradius in meters
SourceIP address
Locating you by IP address…
My addressDetecting your street address…Allow GPS for a street-level address
Cityfinding your city…
State / regionfinding your region…
Countryfinding your country…
Postal codeyour ZIP / postcode…
Time zoneyour time zone…
IP addresslooking up your IP…
Your coordinates, every format
DDyour decimal coordinates…
DMSdegrees, minutes, seconds…
DDMdegrees and decimal minutes…
geo: URIa link that opens your default map app…
Maps linkyour Google Maps link…
What are GPS coordinates?
GPS coordinates are a pair of numbers — latitude and longitude — that mark one exact point on Earth. Latitude measures how far north or south of the equator you stand, from 0° to 90° in either direction. Longitude measures how far east or west of the Greenwich meridian, from 0° to 180°. Written together, 56.949600, 24.105200 is a street corner in Riga, and no other place on the planet shares that pair.
Your device calculates them by timing radio signals from at least 4 satellites. Each satellite broadcasts its own position with an atomic-clock timestamp, and the tiny differences in arrival time pin your receiver to the intersection point. Modern phones listen to GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou simultaneously, which is why a fix that took two minutes in 2005 now takes a few seconds.
How precise do the decimals need to be?
Six decimal places locate a point to about 11 centimeters — more precision than any everyday task needs. Each extra digit divides the error by ten, so you can trim coordinates confidently instead of pasting fifteen digits into a form:
| Decimal places | Precision | Enough to identify |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ~11 km | a large city |
| 2 | ~1.1 km | a village or district |
| 3 | ~110 m | a large building |
| 4 | ~11 m | a plot of land |
| 5 | ~1.1 m | a doorway |
| 6 | ~11 cm | survey work |
This page shows six decimals because the extra digits cost nothing to copy. A delivery driver only ever needs four.
DD, DMS or DDM: which format should you use?
Use decimal degrees (DD) unless something explicitly asks otherwise. Every mainstream app and API — Google Maps, Waze, Uber, every mapping library — reads DD natively. DMS survives in aviation, on marine charts and in legal land descriptions. DDM is the odd one out, kept alive mostly by geocaching and older marine units. All three describe the same point:
| Format | Example (same spot) | Where you'll meet it |
|---|---|---|
| DD | 56.949600, 24.105200 | apps, APIs, this page's default |
| DMS | 56°56′58.6″N 24°06′18.7″E | paper charts, aviation, property deeds |
| DDM | 56° 56.9760′ N 24° 6.3120′ E | geocaching, marine GPS units |
How to enter coordinates in Google Maps
Paste them into the normal search box, latitude first, separated by a comma. Type 56.949600, 24.105200 and a pin drops instantly — the same works in the mobile app. Three mistakes account for nearly every failed attempt: swapping the order (some GIS tools and GeoJSON store longitude first, but Maps expects latitude first), typing a comma as the decimal separator the way European keyboards default to (Maps needs periods), and pasting degree symbols with stray spaces from a PDF. When a paste fails, retype the two plain numbers.
Converting between formats by hand
The arithmetic is short. DD to DMS: the whole number is degrees; multiply the remainder by 60 for minutes; multiply that remainder by 60 again for seconds. So 56.9496 becomes 56°, then 0.9496 × 60 = 56.976 → 56′, then 0.976 × 60 ≈ 58.6″. Going back, divide instead: 56 + 56/60 + 58.6/3600 = 56.9496. Signs follow the hemispheres — north and east positive, south and west negative — which is why Sydney reads −33.8688, 151.2093.
Frequently asked questions
What does a negative coordinate mean?
A negative latitude is south of the equator; a negative longitude is west of the Greenwich meridian. The minus sign replaces the letters: −33.87 means the same as 33.87°S. Nothing is wrong with your reading.
Which comes first, latitude or longitude?
In speech, on this page, and in Google Maps: latitude first. In GeoJSON, KML and many databases: longitude first, because it maps to x,y order. This single inconsistency causes more misplaced pins than any other mistake in mapping, so check which convention a tool expects before pasting.
Why do two phones next to each other show slightly different coordinates?
Each device computes its own independent fix with its own error radius, typically 5–15 m. Two correct readings a few meters apart are both inside their stated accuracy. Average them if you need a better estimate of a fixed point.
What is the geo: link for?
A geo: URI (like geo:56.9496,24.1052) is a phone-native way to hand coordinates to whatever map app the receiver prefers — Google Maps on Android, Apple Maps on iPhone, OsmAnd if that's what they use. Send it when you don't want to choose the app for them.
Do coordinates of a place ever change?
For practical purposes, no. Coordinates are defined against the WGS84 reference frame, and while tectonic plates drift a few centimeters per year, the mapping agencies absorb that in periodic datum adjustments. The pin you save today opens at the same doorway in twenty years.
Coordinates are one view of your current location
Latitude and longitude answer "where" with numbers. For the readable version — your street address, city, county and country on a live map — head back to My Location Now, which runs the same two-stage lookup and shows everything in one place.