📍 GPS Coordinates

Where am I? Find your current location, then share or save it with one tap.

Latitude —
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DMS —
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Your location is read on your device and is never stored on our server. Works best on a phone with GPS; allow location access when prompted.

GPS Coordinates — Where Am I? Find and Share My Location

Tap one button and this answers where am I with two numbers: your latitude and longitude. From there you can share your location with anyone who needs to find you, copy the coordinates into a message or a form, open the spot in Maps, or save your coordinates as a QR code so you can walk back to the same place later. Your position is read directly in your browser using your device's own location and is never sent to or stored on our server. No app to install and no sign-up.

How to Find My Current Location

  1. Tap Get My Location and allow location access when your browser asks.
  2. Your latitude and longitude appear, along with the accuracy (and altitude and speed when your device reports them).
  3. Tap Share my location, copy the coordinates or the map link, open it directly in Maps, or show a QR code to save or scan.

What the Numbers Mean

Two numbers describe any point on Earth. Latitude is how far north or south you are — 0 at the equator, 90 at the poles. Longitude is how far east or west — 0 at Greenwich in London, 180 on the far side of the world. Put the two together and there is exactly one place on the planet they point to.

The tool shows that one place written two ways, and the second way confuses people, so it is worth a moment. Decimal degrees — 48.858370, 2.294481 — is the form you paste into Google Maps, into a car's navigation, or into a message to a friend. DMS stands for degrees, minutes and seconds, and it is the same number chopped into three pieces — rather like writing a height as 5 feet 7 inches instead of 5.58 feet. A degree splits into 60 minutes, and a minute into 60 seconds, borrowing the same habit a clock uses.

So the latitude 48.858370 becomes 48°51'30.1"N: 48 whole degrees, then the leftover 0.858370 of a degree multiplied by 60 gives 51 minutes, and what is left of that multiplied by 60 again gives 30.1 seconds. Same place, three pieces instead of one number. To get a feel for the sizes: one degree of latitude is about 111 km, one minute about 1.85 km (which is where the nautical mile comes from), and one second about 31 m.

DMS came first, from centuries of surveying and navigation done by hand on printed charts, so paper maps, aviation and marine charts, land registries and some permits still use it. Decimal came with computers, which would rather hold one number than three. Neither is more precise. They are the same spot, spelled differently.

The accuracy figure is a radius, not a mistake. ±8 m means you are somewhere inside a circle eight metres across — close enough to find a parked car. ±1200 m, which is what a laptop with no GPS chip typically reports, covers a whole neighbourhood. If the number looks large, that is the reading being honest with you rather than the tool failing.

Key Features

  • Current latitude & longitude in decimal and DMS (degrees/minutes/seconds)
  • One-tap sharing – send your location through your phone's share sheet
  • Copy coordinates or a map link, or open straight in Google Maps
  • QR code – show or download a QR code so someone can scan your location onto their phone
  • Save your coordinates – keep the map link or the QR image and come back to the exact spot later
  • Private – your location stays on your device and isn't stored

When You Might Need This

  • Telling someone exactly where to meet you, even where there is no street address
  • Saving the spot where you parked so you can walk straight back to it
  • Sharing where you are while hiking, camping, fishing, or at a festival or a beach
  • Marking a hotel, a campsite or a rental door that is hard to describe in words
  • Sending your position to someone who is driving out to collect you
  • Giving precise coordinates when you call for help or report a problem
  • Noting where a photo was taken, or where you found something you want to return to
  • Filling in a form, a report or a listing that asks for latitude and longitude

Frequently Asked Questions

Tap Get My Location and the two numbers appear at the top of the card — latitude first, longitude second. Latitude is how far north or south of the equator you are, longitude how far east or west of Greenwich. Both are shown twice: in decimal degrees, which is what you paste into Maps or a message, and in DMS (degrees, minutes and seconds), which is what paper maps and official forms usually want. Tap Copy coordinates to take the decimal pair with you.

Stand at the spot you want to remember — your car, hotel, tent, trailhead — and tap Get My Location. Then either tap Show QR code and download it (or take a screenshot), or just copy the map link and save it (to your notes, a message to yourself, or a photo). Later, scan the saved QR code or open the saved link and it drops a pin on that exact place in Google Maps, so you can navigate straight back to it — even somewhere with no street address. To share it with others instead, tap Share my location to send the same pin through your phone's share sheet (or send them the map link or QR code).

Yes. Your coordinates are read in your browser using your device's location and are not sent to or stored on our server. Sharing and copying happen on your own device. (The optional QR code is rendered on our server from the coordinates you choose to encode and isn't saved.)

Accuracy depends on your device. Phones with GPS are usually accurate to a few metres; laptops and desktops estimate location from Wi-Fi or your network and can be off by hundreds of metres. The accuracy radius shown tells you how precise the reading is.

Allow location access for this site in your browser settings, make sure location services are turned on for your device, and reload the page. Location also requires a secure (HTTPS) connection, which your browser enforces.

No. This tool shares a one-time snapshot of where you are when you tap share — it does not broadcast your live position. To update it, simply share again.

DMS means degrees, minutes and seconds — the same position chopped into three pieces instead of written as one decimal number, the way a height can be 5 feet 7 inches or 5.58 feet. Use the decimal pair for anything digital: Maps, a car's navigation, a message, a web form. Use the DMS line only when something specifically asks for it — a paper map, an aviation or marine chart, a permit or a survey report. They point at the same spot, so there is no accuracy to be gained or lost by picking one.

Not here — this reads your own device's position, so it always answers "where am I", never "where is that". For a different place, open Google Maps, press and hold on the spot until a pin drops, and the coordinates appear at the bottom of the screen ready to copy.

The page has to load first, so you need a connection to open it. After that, the coordinates come from your phone's GPS chip, which works from satellites rather than from the network — so if you leave the tab open, tapping again in a valley or out at sea will usually still give you a reading. Sharing, opening in Maps and the QR code do need a connection, so a useful habit before heading somewhere remote is to take a screenshot of the coordinates while you still have one.

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