Free Tools

Bearing and Distance

This theme will collect practical tools for calculating distance, bearing, magnetic declination, and compass-adjusted navigation between two coordinates.

Bearing and distance tool

Enter a start coordinate and a target coordinate in supported coordinate formats. The tool will calculate the spherical distance along the earth's surface, the true bearing, the local magnetic declination, and the compass bearing adjusted for that declination.

It will also estimate how far off target a route can end up if the user follows the unadjusted bearing instead of the magnetic-declination-adjusted compass bearing.

Input coordinates