How to use the Distance Between Coordinates
- Enter the latitude and longitude of point A.
- Enter point B (decimal degrees or degrees/minutes/seconds).
- Read the distance and initial bearing.
What does this tool do?
The shortest path between two points on the globe is a great circle. The calculator uses Vincenty's formulae on the WGS84 ellipsoid — accurate to within millimetres — and also shows the simpler haversine estimate on a sphere.
New York to London, for example, is about 5,585 km as the crow flies.
Why use it?
- Ellipsoid accuracy.
- km, miles and nautical miles.
- Accepts DMS input.
Privacy
The calculation happens instantly in your browser. The numbers you enter are not sent to our servers or saved. There's no account to create and nothing to install.
Last reviewed by the M2Toolkit team.