Athens Geographic coordinates

Athens is located at latitude 37.98376 and longitude 23.72784. It is part of Europe and the northern hemisphere.

The geographic coordinate system enables any place in the world to be located using its latitude and longitude. The latitude is the position relative to the equator, specifying the north-south position. The longitude specifies the east-west position measured from a reference meridian (usually the Greenwich Prime Meridian). The latitude and longitude of Athens have been calculated based on the geodetic datum WGS84.

Map of Athens with coordinates

Latitude and longitude of Greece

There are many systems and formats to represent geographic coordinates. The following table matches the equivalence between the most common formats:

System	Latitude	Longitude
Simple decimal standard	37.98376	23.72784
Decimal Degrees (DD)	37.9838° N	23.7278° E
Degrees and Decimal Minutes (DDM)	37°59.026' N	23°43.67' E
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds (DMS)	37°59'1.5'' N	23°43'40.2'' E