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Angle & Radian Converter

Convert degrees, radians, gradians, arc minutes, arc seconds, and turns.

Tested tool guide Tested browser tools Checked August 16, 2026

What Angle & Radian Converter does, with a checked example

This tool converts a single angle value across six units at once: degrees, radians, gradians, arc minutes, arc seconds, and turns. Enter a value in any one field and the others recalculate using the fixed ratios between units - 360 degrees, 2 pi radians, 400 gradians, and 1 turn all describe the same full rotation. The most common surprise is gradians: a 90-degree right angle is only 100 gradians, not 90, because the gradian system divides a circle into 400 parts instead of 360.

Worked example

A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.

Input

90 degrees

Expected output

1.5707963268 rad, 100 grad, 0.25 turn, 5400 arcmin, 324000 arcsec

A full turn is 360 degrees = 2 pi radians = 400 gradians = 21600 arc minutes = 1296000 arc seconds, so 90 degrees is exactly one quarter of each of those, while the radian value (pi/2) is shown as a rounded decimal because it has no exact terminating form.

How the result is produced

1

Shared full-turn base

Every conversion routes through the fact that one full turn equals 360 degrees, 2 pi radians, 400 gradians, 21,600 arc minutes, and 1,296,000 arc seconds. A value entered in one field is scaled against that shared full-turn ratio and then scaled back out to each other unit, which keeps all six figures consistent no matter which field you started from.

2

Six linked fields

Degrees, radians, gradians, arc minutes, arc seconds and turns are shown as separate fields tied to one underlying angle. The radian field displays a decimal rather than a multiple of pi. Arc minutes and arc seconds are subdivisions of a degree of angle, not units of time, despite sharing names with clock minutes and seconds.

Good uses

  • converting a rotation value from a CAD, robotics, or game-engine API that reports radians into degrees for documentation
  • converting a surveying or civil-engineering angle given in gradians (grad/gon) into degrees
  • converting an arcsecond offset from an astronomical catalog or geodetic calculation into decimal degrees

Limits and checks

  • Radians are irrational for most whole-degree angles (90 degrees is pi/2), so the radian field is necessarily a rounded display rather than an exact value
  • It isn't documented whether an angle outside 0-360 degrees, or a negative angle, gets normalized to a single rotation or passed through as-is - check the degrees field directly if you need a canonical bearing
  • Arc minutes and arc seconds here measure angle, not time; 30 arcmin is half a degree, not 30 minutes of clock time, so the figure shouldn't be reused in a duration calculation

Common questions

If I enter an angle over 360 degrees or a negative angle, does it wrap to a 0-360 range?

This isn't confirmed from the tool's description - it may pass the raw value through to every unit or normalize it to one rotation. If your work depends on a canonical 0-360 bearing, enter the value and check the degrees field directly rather than assuming.

Can I enter a compound value like 40 degrees 30 arcminutes 15 arcseconds in one field?

The tool exposes degrees, arc minutes, and arc seconds as separate fields for a single angle, not a combined degrees-minutes-seconds entry box, so a compound coordinate would need to be converted to decimal degrees first or entered as matching separate values.

References and verification

The example and behavioral notes were checked against the browser implementation. Standards and primary references below define the relevant format, formula, or platform behavior.

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