Washington Geographic coordinates

Washington is located at latitude 38.71345 and longitude -78.15944. It is part of America 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 Washington have been calculated based on the geodetic datum WGS84.

Map of Washington with coordinates

Latitude and longitude of United States

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	38.71345	-78.15944
Decimal Degrees (DD)	38.7135° N	78.1594° W
Degrees and Decimal Minutes (DDM)	38°42.807' N	78°9.566' W
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds (DMS)	38°42'48.4'' N	78°9'34'' W