What Is My Location?
Your location is the place where your device is currently detected using GPS, Wi-Fi, cellular, or IP-based signals. Click the button below to find your exact latitude, longitude, full address, and position on the map. Your browser will ask for permission first — your coordinates never leave your device unnecessarily.
Everything this tool shows you
One tap gives you your GPS coordinates in 8 formats (decimal, DMS, DDM, UTM, MGRS, Plus Code, geohash and a w3w-style code), your street address, altitude, time zone, sunrise/sunset and moon phase, local weather, and magnetic declination. From there you can share it (including as a QR code another phone scans in seconds), export it as GPX, KML, GeoJSON or CSV, or save it as a named place like Home or Campsite — everything stays on your device.
Power users: convert any point with the coordinate converter, turn a street address into coordinates with the address-to-GPS tool, measure with the distance calculator, or look up any world city in the coordinates database. On a phone, try the online compass and GPS speedometer — both work offline once the site is installed as an app.
How your location is found (and why accuracy differs)
Browsers combine up to four signals. GPS satellites give 3–10 m accuracy outdoors but need a clear sky. Wi-Fi positioning matches nearby network fingerprints and typically lands within 10–40 m in cities. Cell towers are coarser — 100 m to a few km. And an IP address only places you near your provider's node, often 5–25 km away (see what your IP reveals). This page asks for the best available signal with your permission and shows an accuracy radius on the map, so you always know which kind of answer you are looking at.
What “my location” actually means
When a device answers the question what is my location, it is really reporting three different things at once: a coordinate pair (latitude and longitude on the WGS-84 ellipsoid — the raw truth), an accuracy radius (how far off that pair might be), and a reverse-geocoded address (a human-readable label matched from map data). The coordinates are authoritative; the address is an interpretation. That is why your pin can be exactly right while the street name is a door or two off — address databases lag reality.
Device-specific tips
- iPhone / iPad: if no prompt appears, check Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Location Services ▸ Safari Websites, and set it to Ask or Allow. Precise Location should be on for meter-level results.
- Android: allow the site in Chrome's location permission, and make sure Google Location Accuracy (Wi-Fi scanning) is enabled for faster, tighter fixes.
- Windows / macOS: laptops have no GPS chip; expect Wi-Fi accuracy (tens of meters) — still far better than IP.
- Indoors: step near a window; GPS first-fix can take 10–30 s from cold start.
Private by architecture, not by promise
Your coordinates are read by your browser and rendered on your screen — they are not stored on our servers, and every helper lookup (address, weather, what3words) is proxied through this site so third parties never see your browser directly. There are no accounts, and nothing you do here is tied to an identity. History and saved places live only in your device's local storage, and files you export are generated locally. The full policy is in our privacy statement — it is short because there is little to disclose.