Convert latitude and longitude to UTM
Paste latitude and longitude in decimal degrees and the page works out the easting, the northing and the UTM zone of each point, with its hemisphere. You do not need to know the zone: it follows from the longitude. For example, 40.6892, -74.0445 (the Statue of Liberty) gives 580735.871, 4504695.165 in zone 18N.
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About this tool
Paste latitude and longitude in decimal degrees and the page works out the easting, the northing and the UTM zone of each point, with its hemisphere. You do not need to know the zone: it follows from the longitude. For example, 40.6892, -74.0445 (the Statue of Liberty) gives 580735.871, 4504695.165 in zone 18N.
How to do it
- From is already WGS 84, latitude and longitude, and To is WGS 84 / UTM with the zone chosen from each point. If your project needs one fixed zone, pick it in To.
- Paste the coordinates, one point per line, latitude first and longitude second: 40.6892, -74.0445. West of Greenwich the longitude is negative and south of the equator the latitude is negative. If your data has longitude first, change the order in More options.
- Read the easting, the northing and the System column, which gives the zone and hemisphere of each point: EPSG:32618 is zone 18N and EPSG:32743 would be zone 43S. Copy the table or download it as CSV.
Worked examples
Three points converted with this tool. The zone follows from the longitude of each point.
| Place | UTM zone | Input | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York, Statue of Liberty | 18N | 40.6892, -74.0445 | 580735.871, 4504695.165 |
| London, Big Ben | 30N | 51.5007, -0.1246 | 699567.540, 5709427.563 |
| New Delhi, India Gate | 43N | 28.6129, 77.2295 | 717987.253, 3167131.197 |
Frequently asked questions
Short answers to what people ask most.
How is the UTM zone worked out from the longitude?
The Earth is split into 60 zones of 6 degrees, numbered eastwards from the 180 meridian. The zone is the whole part of (longitude + 180) / 6, plus 1. The Statue of Liberty, at longitude -74.0445, gives 105.9555 / 6 = 17.66, so zone 18. Big Ben (-0.1246) falls in zone 30 and India Gate (77.2295) in zone 43. The page does this for every line.
How does the result show the hemisphere?
With the system code: EPSG:326xx codes are northern zones and EPSG:327xx codes are southern zones. In the south, 10,000,000 m are added to the northing so that it is never negative. When you hand the coordinates to someone else, always state the zone and hemisphere next to the two numbers.
My coordinates are in degrees, minutes and seconds. Do I convert them first?
No. Paste them as they are, 40°41'21.12"N 74°02'40.20"W, and the page reads them and projects the point to UTM in one go.
My points fall in two zones. What should I do?
By default each point gets its own zone, which is correct but gives eastings that cannot be compared across the boundary. For a project that straddles two zones, pick one of them in To: the page then projects every point in that zone, with a little more distortion for the points outside it.
Is this the same as MGRS or USNG?
No. MGRS and USNG are built on UTM but replace the leading digits with letters, as in 18TWL8073604695. Use the MGRS converter linked below for those.