Convert Coordinates to an Address

Paste coordinates in any common format — decimal degrees like 48.8584, 2.2945, or DMS like 48°51'30"N 2°17'40"E — and this page reverse-geocodes them into the nearest street address, broken into house number, street, city, region, postcode and country. One tap uses your current position instead. Nothing you paste is stored.

Going the other way? Convert an address → coordinates

What reverse geocoding can and can't promise

Turning a point into an address is a nearest-match problem, not a lookup: the service finds the closest known building or road segment in open map data (OpenStreetMap, via Nominatim) and reads its address. In dense cities that's usually exact to the door. In apartment complexes, rural areas or places with sparse mapping, the nearest known address can sit a plot or two away — the coordinates are right, the map's knowledge is the limit. For the reverse trip, address → coordinates resolves text back to a point.

Where people paste coordinates from

The classic sources: a photo's EXIF data (read it here), a Google Maps pin shared as "48.8584, 2.2945", a GPX track from a hike (view the file), a geocaching listing in DMS, or a coordinate a form rejected because it wanted an address. This page accepts decimal degrees, degrees-minutes-seconds and degrees-decimal-minutes — mixed hemispheres, commas or spaces — and normalizes before looking anything up. If a format refuses to parse, the coordinate converter shows the same point in eight notations.

Privacy

The lookup sends only the coordinate pair to the geocoding service — never your identity, never your own position unless you explicitly tap the location button, and nothing is stored on our side. Coordinates you paste stay in your browser except for that one lookup request. The map preview loads OpenStreetMap tiles; no other third party is involved.

Frequently asked questions

What coordinate formats can I paste?

Decimal degrees (48.8584, 2.2945), degrees-minutes-seconds (48°51'30"N 2°17'40"E), and degrees with decimal minutes. Hemisphere letters or minus signs both work, and separators are flexible — commas, spaces, or both.

Why is the address a few doors off?

Reverse geocoding finds the nearest address known to the map, and in sparsely mapped areas that can be a neighbouring plot. The point on the map is exactly what you pasted — the address is the map's best knowledge around it. Clicking the map re-reads the address at any adjusted position.

Can I convert an address into coordinates instead?

Yes — that's the mirror tool: address to coordinates. It geocodes text into a point and shows the same eight coordinate formats and map.

Are the coordinates I paste stored?

No. They're sent once to the geocoding service to fetch the address, are never logged with any identity, and nothing persists on our side. The whole flow also works with your own position, one tap, with the same guarantees.