How to Get & Copy Coordinates from Google Maps (4 Easy Ways)

Need the latitude and longitude of a place on Google Maps? There are several ways to get them, and all of them take under a minute — whether you're grabbing coordinates for a single address on your phone, pulling them from a URL for a web project, or extracting them for hundreds of businesses at once with a Google Maps scraping tool. This guide covers every method, starting with the quickest.

A quick refresher before we start: latitude measures how far north or south a point is from the Equator, and longitude measures how far east or west it is from the Prime Meridian. Google Maps expresses both in decimal degrees — for example 37.7749, -122.4194 is San Francisco. Latitude always comes first.

Method 1: Get coordinates on desktop (fastest)

• 1. Open Google Maps at maps.google.com in your browser.
• 2. Find your location — search for an address or place name, or pan and zoom to the exact spot.
• 3. Right-click the exact point on the map. The coordinates appear as the first item at the top of the menu, already in decimal format.
• 4. Click the coordinates — they're copied straight to your clipboard, ready to paste anywhere.

This works for any point on the map — landmarks, addresses, or an unmarked spot in the middle of a field. If you right-click a business marker itself and don't see coordinates in the menu, right-click just next to the marker instead.

Method 2: Get coordinates on mobile (Android and iPhone)

The Google Maps app uses a dropped pin instead of a right-click:

• 1. Open the Google Maps app on your phone or tablet.
• 2. Find the location — search for it or scroll the map manually.
• 3. Press and hold the exact spot until a pin drops on it.
• 4. Read the coordinates. On Android they appear in the search box at the top of the screen; on iPhone, swipe up on the dropped-pin panel to see them in the details.
• 5. Copy them — tap the coordinates to select and copy.

Method 3: Read coordinates from the Google Maps URL

Handy for developers and anyone building links or spreadsheets: after you search for a place on desktop, look at your browser's address bar. The URL contains a segment like @37.7749,-122.4194,15z — that's the latitude and longitude of the current map view, followed by the zoom level.

One thing to know: the @lat,lng in the URL is the center of your current view, not necessarily the pin itself. Center the map on your target (or zoom in close on it) before copying. For a place you've selected, the URL often also contains the pin's exact position in a segment that looks like !3d37.7749!4d-122.4194 — the 3d value is latitude and 4d is longitude.

Note that the Share button won't help here — it generates a shortened link with no visible coordinates. Use the address bar URL instead.

Method 4: Extract coordinates for many businesses at once

The methods above are perfect for one location. But if you need coordinates for every business in an area — say, all restaurants in a city for a mapping project, a delivery-zone analysis, or a lead-generation database — clicking each one manually would take days.

That's the job a Google Maps scraper automates. You search Google Maps the way you normally would (for example "restaurants in Chicago"), start the crawler, and it walks through the results extracting the data for each listing — including latitude and longitude, along with the business name, address, phone number, website, rating, reviews, and more. No programming or advanced computer skills are required, and when it's done you can export everything to Excel, CSV, or JSON with the coordinates in their own columns.

Because every row pairs coordinates with full business details, the output plugs directly into mapping software, GIS tools, route planners, or a CRM. You can also queue many searches at once by listing them in a text file — useful for covering multiple cities or categories in a single run. And if you regularly extract large volumes and speed is the priority, the Fast Google Maps Scraper is built for high-volume runs. Both tools have free versions, so you can test the output before buying anything.

Method 5: Google Maps API (for developers)

If you're building an application, the Google Maps Platform offers the programmatic route: the Geocoding API converts addresses into coordinates, and the Places API returns coordinates as part of place details.

• 1. Create a Google Cloud project and enable the API you need (Geocoding or Places).
• 2. Generate an API key — note that Google requires a billing account, with a monthly free usage allowance before charges apply.
• 3. Make requests — send an address or place name via HTTP, and the JSON response includes the latitude and longitude.
• 4. Parse the response and use the coordinates in your application.

The API is the right choice when coordinates need to flow into your own software automatically. For one-off lookups it's overkill, and for bulk business data collection a scraper is usually simpler and cheaper — no API quotas, keys, or per-request billing to manage.

Frequently asked questions

What format are Google Maps coordinates in?

Decimal degrees, with latitude first: 37.7749, -122.4194. Positive latitude is north of the Equator, negative is south; positive longitude is east of the Prime Meridian, negative is west. You can also paste coordinates in DMS format (degrees, minutes, seconds) into the search bar and Google Maps will find the spot.

Can I search Google Maps using coordinates?

Yes — paste the latitude and longitude into the search bar (for example 37.7749, -122.4194) and Google Maps will drop a pin at that exact point.

How accurate are the coordinates?

Very — decimal coordinates with five or six decimal places pinpoint a location to within about a meter. Just make sure you right-click (or drop the pin) on the exact spot you mean, since the coordinates describe wherever you clicked, not the nearest address.

How do I get coordinates for hundreds of locations without doing it manually?

Use a scraping tool. A Google Maps scraper extracts the coordinates of every business in your search results automatically — along with names, addresses, phone numbers, and other details — and exports it all to a spreadsheet.

Conclusion

Getting coordinates from Google Maps is quick once you know where to look: right-click on desktop, drop a pin on mobile, read the address-bar URL for web projects, or use the API when you're building software. And when one location becomes hundreds, skip the manual clicking — a Google Maps scraper pulls the coordinates for entire search results at once, complete with the business details that make the data actually useful.