Free Angle Converter Online

Convert angle measurements between degrees, radians, gradians, and other units. Free, fast, and works entirely in your browser with no sign-up required.

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Angle Converter

Convert between 18 angle units \u2014 degrees, radians, gradians, mils, compass points & more. Includes trig calculator, unit circle reference, and visual comparison.

Common Presets

Angle Converter

90 Degrees

= 1.570796 Radians

1 ° = 0.01745329 rad

DMS: 90° 0′ 0″

Favorites

90 °

Degrees

1.570796 rad

Radians

100 grad

Gradians

0.25 turn

Turns

Conversion Table

Degrees

Common

Radians

Common

Gradians

Common

Turns

Common

Points (compass)

Navigation

Quadrants

Navigation

Sextants

Navigation

Hour Angles

Navigation

Signs (zodiac)

Navigation

Arcminutes

Scientific

Arcseconds

Scientific

Milliradians

Scientific

Microradians

Scientific

Milliarcseconds

Scientific

NATO Mils

Military

Soviet Mils

Military

Swedish Streck

Military

Binary Degrees

Military

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Angle Converter?

The Angle Converter is a free online tool that converts between degrees, radians, and gradians for mathematical and engineering calculations.

Is the Angle Converter free?

Yes, it is completely free with no registration required. All conversions happen client-side in your browser.

What angle units are supported?

The Angle Converter supports degrees, radians, gradians (gons), turns, and arc minutes/seconds.

Is my data safe with this tool?

Absolutely. The Angle Converter processes everything client-side in your browser. No data is uploaded to or stored on any server. Your content remains private on your device at all times.

Does the Angle Converter work on mobile devices?

Yes, the Angle Converter is fully responsive and works on smartphones and tablets. You can use it on any device with a modern web browser -- no app download required.

Do I need to create an account to use this tool?

No account or registration is needed. Simply open the Angle Converter in your browser and start using it immediately. There are no sign-up walls or usage restrictions.

How do I use the Angle Converter?

Simply enter your input in the provided field, adjust any settings to your preference, and the tool will process it instantly. You can then copy the result to your clipboard or download it.

Which browsers are supported?

The Angle Converter works in all modern browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Opera. For the best experience, use the latest version of your preferred browser.

How do you convert degrees to radians?

To convert degrees to radians, multiply the degree value by pi divided by 180, because a full circle is 360 degrees and also 2 pi radians. So 180 degrees equals pi radians (about 3.14159), 90 degrees equals pi/2, and 45 degrees equals pi/4. To go the other way, multiply radians by 180/pi. This matters because nearly every programming language's sin, cos, and tan functions expect radians, not degrees, so feeding them raw degree values quietly produces wrong results. The relationship is exact arithmetic, but doing it by hand invites rounding mistakes. Enter your degree value in the Angle Converter, choose Radians as the target unit, and it returns the precise result to six decimal places, with a one-tap swap to reverse the direction whenever you need it.

What is the difference between degrees and gradians?

Degrees and gradians both measure plane angles but divide the circle differently. A full circle is 360 degrees but 400 gradians (also called gons), which makes a right angle exactly 100 gradians instead of 90 degrees. The gradian was designed for that round number, so a quarter turn is 100 gradians, a half turn is 200, and a slope of 1 gradian is 1 percent grade. Gradians appear mainly in surveying, civil engineering, and some European calculators, while degrees dominate everyday geometry and navigation. To convert, multiply degrees by 10/9 to get gradians, or gradians by 9/10 to get degrees. The Angle Converter handles both directions instantly and also shows the exact unit-to-unit factor, so you can see that 1 degree equals roughly 1.111 gradians at a glance.

What are NATO mils and how do they relate to degrees?

A NATO mil is an angular unit used by militaries for artillery and rangefinding, defined so that a full circle contains exactly 6400 mils. That makes one mil equal to 360/6400, or 0.05625 degrees, and a right angle 1600 mils. The appeal is practical: at long range one mil subtends roughly one meter per 1000 meters of distance, which simplifies aiming and ranging math in the field. Note that not all mils agree: Soviet doctrine splits the circle into 6000 mils and Swedish streck uses 6300, so the same word can mean slightly different angles. The Angle Converter includes NATO mils, Soviet mils, and Swedish streck side by side, letting you translate any of them to and from degrees or radians accurately rather than relying on a remembered approximation.

What is the difference between an arcminute and an arcsecond?

Arcminutes and arcseconds subdivide a single degree using the same sexagesimal system as clocks. One degree contains 60 arcminutes (symbol prime), and one arcminute contains 60 arcseconds (symbol double prime), so a degree holds 3600 arcseconds. These fine units describe very small angles in astronomy, optics, and precision aiming, where a whole degree is far too coarse; the apparent size of a planet or the resolution of a telescope is often quoted in arcseconds. They also map directly onto latitude and longitude, where coordinates are written in degrees, minutes, and seconds. The Angle Converter not only translates between these units but also displays a degrees-minutes-seconds breakdown for any angle you enter, so you can read a decimal degree value as its exact DMS equivalent without separate calculation.

Why do programming languages use radians instead of degrees?

Most languages use radians because radians are the natural mathematical unit for angles, defined by the geometry of the circle itself rather than an arbitrary count. One radian is the angle where the arc length equals the radius, so arc length is simply radius times angle in radians with no conversion constant. This keeps calculus clean: the derivative of sine is cosine only when the input is in radians, and the series expansions used internally to compute trig functions assume radians. As a result, functions like Math.sin in JavaScript, Python, C, and Java all expect radian inputs, which is a frequent source of bugs when a value is actually in degrees. The Angle Converter makes the handoff easy, converting any degree value to radians at the precision you choose so you can paste a correct argument straight into your code.

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About the Angle Converter

The Angle Converter turns a measurement in one angular unit into its equivalent in another — degrees to radians, gradians to turns, NATO mils to arcseconds, and many more. Type a value, pick the unit you have and the unit you want, and the result appears instantly. It is built for students working through trigonometry, engineers and CAD users dealing with rotations, surveyors and navigators reading bearings, and game and graphics developers who switch constantly between degrees and radians.

Everything happens in your browser. Nothing you enter is uploaded or stored on a server, there is no sign-up, and no software to install. The conversions are pure arithmetic on your device, so they work offline once the page has loaded and respond as fast as you can type.

Units the converter supports

It handles 19 angle units, grouped so you can find the right one quickly:

  • Common — degrees, radians, gradians (gons), and turns. These cover almost all everyday math, physics, and engineering work.
  • Navigation — compass points, quadrants, sextants, hour angles, and zodiac signs, useful for bearings, astronomy, and circle subdivisions.
  • Scientific — arcminutes, arcseconds, milliradians, microradians, and milliarcseconds, the fine units used in optics, astronomy, and precision aiming.
  • Military — NATO mils (6400 to a circle), Soviet mils (6000), Swedish streck (6300), and binary degrees (256 to a circle).

Every conversion is defined relative to degrees, so any unit can be converted to any other in a single step.

How to use it and what it shows

Enter a number, choose your "from" and "to" units, and the converted value updates live. A Swap button flips the two units so you can reverse a conversion without retyping, Reset clears everything, and a copy button puts the result on your clipboard. You can set the decimal precision (six places by default) and toggle scientific notation for very large or very small values such as milliarcseconds.

Beyond the single answer, the tool surfaces extra context for whatever angle you enter: a degrees-minutes-seconds (DMS) breakdown, the sine, cosine, and tangent values, which quadrant the angle falls in, and the exact unit-to-unit conversion factor. Quick-select presets for common angles — 30°, 45°, 60°, 90°, 180°, 360°, π and 2π radians — let you load a value with one tap.

Why the conversions matter

Mixing up angular units is a classic source of errors, because most of these units measure the same thing on completely different scales. Keeping the key relationships straight helps:

  • A full circle is 360 degrees, 2π radians (about 6.283), 400 gradians, or 1 turn.
  • A right angle is 90°, π/2 radians, or 100 gradians — the gradian was designed so a right angle is a round 100.
  • 1 degree equals 60 arcminutes, and 1 arcminute equals 60 arcseconds, the same sexagesimal system used for latitude and longitude.
  • Radians are the natural unit for calculus and physics: the arc length of a circle is simply the radius times the angle in radians, which is why trig functions in nearly every programming language expect radians, not degrees.
  • Milliradians and mils are used for aiming and ranging because at a long distance one mil subtends roughly one unit of length per thousand units of range.

Common real-world conversions

The presets and comparisons reflect angles people actually look up. A clock's minute hand sweeps 6° per minute and the hour hand 30° per hour. A single compass point is 11.25°, one thirty-second of the circle. Earth's axial tilt is about 23.44°, and a common 4:12 roof pitch works out to roughly 18.43°. Whether you are checking homework, setting a CNC rotation, or reading a bearing, the Angle Converter gives a precise, instant answer without the round-trips of doing the arithmetic by hand.