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Charlottesville Albemarle Airport Coordinates

VA, US · Elevation 195m

Quick answer: Charlottesville Albemarle Airport is located at 38.138599, -78.452904 (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

38.138599, -78.452904
DMS

Degrees Minutes Seconds

38°8'18.96"N 78°27'10.45"W
DDM

Degrees Decimal Minutes

38°8.3160'N 78°27.1742'W
UTM

Universal Transverse Mercator

17S 723224 4224258
MGRS

Military Grid Reference

17SQC2322424258
Geohash

Geohash Encoding

dqb0yybm6
Plus Code

Open Location Code

87C34GQW+H3

Map Location

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

Antipodal Point

The point on the exact opposite side of Earth from Charlottesville Albemarle Airport. If you drilled straight through the planet's center, you would emerge here.

Antipodal coordinates

-38.138599, -78.452904

Hemisphere: S, W

DD

Decimal Degrees

-38.138599, -78.452904
DMS

Degrees Minutes Seconds

38°8'18.96"S 78°27'10.45"W
DDM

Degrees Decimal Minutes

38°8.3160'S 78°27.1742'W
UTM

Universal Transverse Mercator

17H 723224 5775742
MGRS

Military Grid Reference

17HQT2322475742
Geohash

Geohash Encoding

630pnc06d
Plus Code

Open Location Code

47H3VG6W+HV

MGRS Decoded

MGRS encodes location as a nested hierarchy — zone, band, grid square, and offsets. Here is what each component of 17SQC2322424258 means.

Component Value Meaning
UTM Zone 17 One of 60 vertical slices of Earth (6° wide each). Zone 17 runs -84° to -78° longitude.
Latitude Band S One of 20 horizontal bands (8° tall each), lettered C–X (skipping I and O). Indicates the general latitude region.
100 km Square QC A 100 × 100 km grid square within the zone/band. Column letter Q (west–east) and row letter C (south–north).
Easting 23224 Distance east within the 100 km square. 5-digit value = 10 m resolution. Multiply by 1 to get meters.
Northing 24258 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 Charlottesville Albemarle 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
dq
≈ 1,250 × 625 km
3
dqb
≈ 156 × 156 km
4
dqb0
≈ 39 × 20 km
5
dqb0y
≈ 4.9 × 4.9 km
6
dqb0yy
≈ 1.2 km × 610 m
7
dqb0yyb
≈ 153 × 153 m
8
dqb0yybm
≈ 38 × 19 m
9
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≈ 4.8 × 4.8 m

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

About Charlottesville Albemarle Airport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville-Albemarle_Airport

Live Converter

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DD

38.138599, -78.452904

DMS

38°8'18.96"N 78°27'10.45"W

DDM

38°8.3160'N 78°27.1742'W

UTM

17S 723224 4224258

MGRS

17SQC2322424258

GH

dqb0yybm6

OLC

87C34GQW+H3