Coordinate Formats

One point on the earth, written down. Which way it is written depends on who is reading: a phone wants decimals, a chart wants degrees and minutes, a surveyor wants metres on a grid, and a courier wants something short enough to say out loud.

They all mean the same place. Converting between them is arithmetic, not a lookup, so nothing about the point leaves this server.

• Paste a point in any form. It is recognised by its shape, so nothing has to be chosen first.
• Latitude comes first in every written form: 50.0267, 8.5584, 50°01.602′N 8°33.501′E, 50 1 36.1 N 8 33 30.1 E.
• A grid reference works too: 32UMA6836541693, 32U 468366 5541693.
• So does a short code: 9F2C2HG5+M8Q or u0yhdg048jbm.
• Every answer has a copy button, because that is what the page is for.
• The dice fills the field with a random example.

A short form is a square, not a point. A Plus Code of eleven characters names a patch about three metres across, and an MGRS reference at five digits names a metre. Reading one back gives the middle of that square, so a value can come back a step different from the one that went in. The answer says how large the square is.

33S means two things. In MGRS it is the latitude band from 32° to 40° north. In GIS naming, as in EPSG:32733, it means the southern hemisphere. They are ten thousand kilometres apart. This page reads the letter as a band, so give a band letter between C and M for a southern point.