Decimal Degrees to DMS Converter

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Choose whether to convert from decimal degrees to DMS, or from DMS back to decimal degrees.
Enter the angle in decimal degrees. Negative values represent south latitude or west longitude.
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DMS notation
48° 51' 29.88"

Standard degrees-minutes-seconds string

Degrees48°
Minutes51'
Seconds29.88"
Degrees Decimal Minutes48° 51.498'
Total Minutes2,931.498'
Total Seconds175,889.88"
Degrees48
Minutes51
Seconds29.88

48.8583° = 48° 51' 29.88"

  • 48.8583° in decimal degrees equals 48° 51' 29.88" in DMS notation.
  • In degrees decimal minutes (DMM), the same angle is 48° 51.498', a format common on older GPS handsets.
  • If this is a latitude, it lies in the Northern hemisphere. If it is a longitude, it lies East of the prime meridian.
  • One arc-second spans roughly 31 metres on the Earth's surface near the equator, so the precision of your seconds digit matters for GPS accuracy.

Next stepTo convert a GPS coordinate pair, run the latitude and longitude values separately through this converter.

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