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South Alabama Regional At Bill Benton Field Airport Coordinates

AL, US · Elevation 94m

Quick answer: South Alabama Regional At Bill Benton Field Airport is located at 31.308800, -86.393799 (N, W).

Different tools require different formats — Garmin devices default to DDM, military maps use MGRS, topo maps use UTM, and web apps expect Decimal Degrees. Copy whichever format your device or application needs. Click any format abbreviation to learn how it works.

All Coordinate Formats

DD

Decimal Degrees

31.308800, -86.393799
DMS

Degrees Minutes Seconds

31°18'31.68"N 86°23'37.68"W
DDM

Degrees Decimal Minutes

31°18.5280'N 86°23.6279'W
UTM

Universal Transverse Mercator

16R 557685 3463984
MGRS

Military Grid Reference

16REV5768563984
Geohash

Geohash Encoding

djdd459fy
Plus Code

Open Location Code

863M8J54+FH

Map Location

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

Antipodal Point

The point on the exact opposite side of Earth from South Alabama Regional At Bill Benton Field Airport. If you drilled straight through the planet's center, you would emerge here.

Antipodal coordinates

-31.308800, -86.393799

Hemisphere: S, W

DD

Decimal Degrees

-31.308800, -86.393799
DMS

Degrees Minutes Seconds

31°18'31.68"S 86°23'37.68"W
DDM

Degrees Decimal Minutes

31°18.5280'S 86°23.6279'W
UTM

Universal Transverse Mercator

16J 557685 6536016
MGRS

Military Grid Reference

16JEL5768536016
Geohash

Geohash Encoding

646tfh3vn
Plus Code

Open Location Code

46WMMJR4+F9

MGRS Decoded

MGRS encodes location as a nested hierarchy — zone, band, grid square, and offsets. Here is what each component of 16REV5768563984 means.

Component Value Meaning
UTM Zone 16 One of 60 vertical slices of Earth (6° wide each). Zone 16 runs -90° to -84° longitude.
Latitude Band R One of 20 horizontal bands (8° tall each), lettered C–X (skipping I and O). Indicates the general latitude region.
100 km Square EV A 100 × 100 km grid square within the zone/band. Column letter E (west–east) and row letter V (south–north).
Easting 57685 Distance east within the 100 km square. 5-digit value = 10 m resolution. Multiply by 1 to get meters.
Northing 63984 Distance north within the 100 km square. Same resolution as easting (10 m).

Geohash Precision

A geohash encodes coordinates by subdividing the Earth into progressively smaller cells. Each extra character roughly halves the cell area. The table below shows South Alabama Regional At Bill Benton Field Airport's geohash at every precision level alongside the bounding box each level represents.

Length Geohash Cell Size
1
d
≈ 5,000 × 5,000 km
2
dj
≈ 1,250 × 625 km
3
djd
≈ 156 × 156 km
4
djdd
≈ 39 × 20 km
5
djdd4
≈ 4.9 × 4.9 km
6
djdd45
≈ 1.2 km × 610 m
7
djdd459
≈ 153 × 153 m
8
djdd459f
≈ 38 × 19 m
9
djdd459fy
≈ 4.8 × 4.8 m

Precision 9 (highlighted) is the default and provides sub-5-metre accuracy for most applications.

About South Alabama Regional At Bill Benton Field Airport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andalusia-Opp_Airport

Live Converter

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DD

31.308800, -86.393799

DMS

31°18'31.68"N 86°23'37.68"W

DDM

31°18.5280'N 86°23.6279'W

UTM

16R 557685 3463984

MGRS

16REV5768563984

GH

djdd459fy

OLC

863M8J54+FH

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