Geohash to Lat/Lon Converter

About this calculator

A geohash encodes a latitude/longitude location into a short base-32 string by recursively bisecting the world map: each character narrows the possible area, interleaving bits from longitude and latitude, so longer strings mean smaller, more precise cells. This tool reverses that process — it decodes the geohash back into the center latitude and longitude of its cell, plus the cell's error margin, which shrinks as the geohash gets longer.

Backend and geospatial developers use geohash decoding to debug location data stored in systems like Elasticsearch or MongoDB that index by geohash for fast proximity queries, GIS analysts use it to translate geohash-tagged datasets back into plottable coordinates, and API integrators use it when a third-party service returns geohashes instead of raw lat/lon pairs.