Calculate distance, bearing and more between two latitude/longitude points
Distance
This page helps you to calculate great-circle distances between two points using the ‘Haversine’ formula.
The formula assumes that the earth is a sphere, (we know that it is "egg" shaped) but it is accurate enough* for our purposes.
Enter the coordinates into the text boxes to try it out. It accepts a variety of formats:
deg-min-sec suffixed with N/S/E/W (e.g. 40°44′55″N, 73 59 11W), or
signed decimal degrees without compass direction, where negative indicates west/south (e.g. 40.7486, -73.9864)