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Convert coordinates or angles between decimal degrees and degrees-minutes-seconds (DMS) format.

How It Works

How Degrees Minutes Seconds Calculator Works

A degree splits into 60 minutes, and each minute splits into 60 seconds — the same base-60 structure clocks use. Converting to DMS peels off the whole-number degrees, then converts the remaining fraction into minutes, then converts what's left of that into seconds.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is DMS format still used?
Traditional navigation, surveying, and some GPS and mapping tools still display coordinates in DMS, while most modern consumer map apps default to decimal degrees — this converter bridges between the two.