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See Also
- Longitude
- LatitudeLongitude
- GeoPosition
- GeodesyData
- DMSString
- DMSList
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- Interpreter Types
- GeoCoordinates
- Related Guides
Latitude
Details
- Latitude[pos] returns a Quantity angle in degrees with magnitude in the range
to
. - The position pos in Latitude[pos] can be a GeoPosition, GeoGridPosition, or other position object. It can also be a geo Entity object.
- Latitude[] is equivalent to Latitude[$GeoLocation].
- Latitude gives the geodetic latitude; GeodesyData gives conversions to other forms of latitude.
- If no datum is given, Latitude assumes positions to refer to the "ITRF00" datum, the International Terrestrial Reference Frame 2000.
Examples
open all close allBasic Examples (5)
Extract the latitude from a geodetic position:
Latitude[GeoPosition[{40.11, -88.24}]]Compute the latitude of a position given in projected coordinates:
Latitude[GeoGridPosition[{-0.126, -0.046}, "Gnomonic"]]Latitude[Entity["City", {"Madrid", "Madrid", "Spain"}]]Compute the latitude of a geodetic position, transforming to the "NAD83CORS96" datum:
Latitude[GeoPosition[{0.1, -90}], "NAD83CORS96"]Compute the latitude of a geo entity class:
Latitude[EntityClass["Building", "AcropolisAthens"]]Scope (10)
Latitude[]This is equivalent to the following:
Latitude[$GeoLocation]Extract the latitude of a GeoPosition object:
Latitude[GeoPosition[{-12.34, 56.78}]]Compute the latitude of any type of geo location:
GeoPositionXYZ[Here]Latitude[%]GeoGridPosition[Here, "Albers"]Latitude[%]Get the latitude of a geo entity:
Latitude[Entity["Building", "EiffelTower::5h9w8"]]This is equivalent to the following:
Entity["Building", "EiffelTower::5h9w8"]["Position"]Latitude[%]Extract the latitudes of the locations in a GeoPosition array:
GeoPosition[{{17.32, -58.61}, {-34.12, 125.32}, {50, 0}}]Latitude[%]Get the latitudes of the elements of a geo entity class:
Latitude[EntityClass["Building", "AcropolisAthens"]]That is equivalent to the following:
EntityClass["Building", "AcropolisAthens"]["Position"]Latitude[%]Extract the latitude of a geo location in a given datum:
Latitude[GeoPosition[{0, 70}], "NAD83CORS96"]Latitude automatically threads over lists of locations:
Latitude[{Here, Entity["City", {"NewYork", "NewYork", "UnitedStates"}], GeoPositionENU[{0, 0, 0}, GeoPosition[{50, 0}]]}]Extract Exif location information from an image:
Latitude[[image]]Latitude["NorthPole"]Latitude["NullIsland"]These are the current latitudes of the magnetic poles, as determined by GeomagneticModelData:
Latitude["NorthGeomagneticPole"]Latitude["NorthModelDipPole"]Properties & Relations (3)
Take a GeoPosition object:
pos = HereLatitude returns the latitude of that location as a Quantity object:
Latitude[pos]The "Latitude" property of GeoPosition objects returns a numeric result in degrees:
pos["Latitude"]The presence of elevation or temporal data does not affect the value of latitude:
Latitude[GeoPosition[{50, -30}]]Latitude[GeoPosition[{50, -30, 1000, Now}]]Latitude returns geodetic latitude with respect to a reference datum ellipsoid:
pos = Herelat = Latitude[pos]datum = pos["Datum"]GeodesyData can convert to other types of latitude for the given datum:
GeodesyData[datum, {"AuthalicLatitude", lat}]GeodesyData[datum, {"ConformalLatitude", lat}]GeodesyData[datum, {"GeocentricLatitude", lat}]GeodesyData[datum, {"IsometricLatitude", lat}]GeodesyData[datum, {"RectifyingLatitude", lat}]GeodesyData[datum, {"ReducedLatitude", lat}]See Also
Longitude LatitudeLongitude GeoPosition GeodesyData DMSString DMSList
Interpreter Types: GeoCoordinates
Related Guides
Text
Wolfram Research (2008), Latitude, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Latitude.html (updated 2020).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2008. "Latitude." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2020. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Latitude.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2008). Latitude. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Latitude.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2026_latitude, author="Wolfram Research", title="{Latitude}", year="2020", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Latitude.html}", note=[Accessed: 12-June-2026]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2026_latitude, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={Latitude}, year={2020}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Latitude.html}, note=[Accessed: 12-June-2026]}