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Find any place on Earth

Search any city, street or landmark and get its exact coordinates, distance, local time, postal code and elevation.

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Searches and your location stay in your browser — we don’t store them.

How to find a place

  1. Search by name or address. Type a landmark, street address, city or country in the box above and press Search.
  2. Read the result. You’ll get the full address, exact latitude and longitude, and a map pin you can copy or open in Google Maps.
  3. Go further. Jump to distance between cities, the local time, a postal code, or the elevation — the place you found flows straight into the next tool.

What is a “place”, exactly?

A place is anything you can point to: a capital city, a mountain pass, a corner café, a park bench at the end of a lane. Every one of them has the same pair of numbers behind it — its latitude and longitude. Places turns the names people use into those numbers and back, so “Eiffel Tower” becomes 48.858370, 2.294481, plus an address, a map, the local time and its elevation.

Address vs coordinates — what’s the difference?

An address (“20 W 34th St, New York”) is how people describe a place; coordinates (“40.748440, -73.985664”) are how maps and machines describe the exact same spot. Addresses are easy to read but can be ambiguous, and not everywhere has one; coordinates are precise to a few metres and work anywhere on Earth — over oceans, in deserts, on trails. Converting between the two is the core of what Places does, and it’s why a single point can drive a delivery, a meeting pin, or a search.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I find the GPS coordinates of a place?

Type the place name or address into the search box at the top of this page and press Search. You’ll get its exact latitude and longitude in decimal degrees and DMS, plus a map. For more detail and other formats, open Find GPS coordinates.

Is Places free?

Yes. Every tool is free, with no account, no sign-up and no rate-limit walls. The site is a set of fast static pages with a small, cached lookup service behind them.

Where does the place data come from?

Place search and addresses come from OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim service; elevation comes from Open-Meteo (SRTM-based digital elevation models); your approximate “near you” location comes from Cloudflare’s edge network. All coordinates use the WGS84 datum.

How accurate are the results?

Coordinates for a searched place are typically accurate to within a few metres of the mapped feature. The “you appear to be near …” line is approximate (city-level) because it’s based on your IP address — use Where am I for precise GPS.

Do you store my searches or location?

No. Searches run against a cached, anonymous lookup service and aren’t tied to you, and any precise location you share stays in your browser. See our privacy policy.