Enter degrees, minutes, and seconds to convert them to a decimal degree value.
How to Use the DMS to Decimal Calculator
Enter the degrees, minutes, and seconds. The decimal degree equivalent comes out below.
decimal degrees = degrees + (minutes ÷ 60) + (seconds ÷ 3600)This runs the Degrees to DMS conversion in reverse — minutes are sixtieths of a degree and seconds are sixtieths of a minute (so thirty-six hundredths of a degree), the same nested base-60 structure a clock uses for hours, minutes, and seconds. For a negative coordinate (south latitude or west longitude), apply the negative sign to the whole result after converting, not to the minutes or seconds individually.