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Geohashing is a global game of spontaneous adventure generation with over 18,000 expeditions since 2008. You will explore random locations, meet fellow geohashers, brave the elements, unlock achievements, and then come back here to document your expedition.

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Are there any backups if I miss the ferry back? No other ferries until Friday the 26th, no flights because it's winter, and I can't swim 60 km in the frigid waters. That means no.
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The Algorithm was invented for xkcd comic #426, published on 21 May 2008.

How to play?

  1. Get today's coordinates with a coordinate calculator
  2. Go there (or as close as you safely and legally can)
  3. Create an account (Returning after a break? All accounts created before 2020-02-02 were deleted; you'll need to sign up again)
  4. Write about your expedition!

How does Geohashing work?

Everyday, an algorithm generates a random coordinate from stock market data. That coordinate can be applied to every 1°×1° latitude/longitude graticule in the world, giving a point that might be in a field, a forest, a city, or even out at sea! Everyone in the world gets the same set of coordinates relative to their graticule.

Each day, people try to get their nearest generated coordinate, for an adventure, to discover somewhere new, or to meet up with other geohashers. Afterwards, you can document your expedition. The rest of us would love to read your story, see your photos, and cheer your success (or commiserate with your failure)! Join the other 'spot spotters', be out standing in your field and use this wiki to document the daily coordinates (geohashes) you’ve been to or tried to reach.

Each day there is also a single globalhash somewhere on Earth: rare, valued and much harder to reach.

Learn more

How to geohash:

Other people's expeditions:

Get involved


news archiveEdit What's new on the wiki?

  • The most active graticule for 2026-03 was 52,8.
  • AI crawlers continue to be a problem; Dan Q has revoked access to most Special: pages by unauthenticated users: if something breaks, email him!
  • Some mitigation to the loading/performance issues are in place. Dan Q is looking at an (overdue) upgrade of the server.

More pages needing discussionDiscussion archiveEdit Now discussing - please join in: 


Official xkcd meetups

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Felix Dance, Mdixon4, Rhonda, Lachie and Stevage meet up at the 28 December 2015 (a Monday) coordinates for Bairnsdale, VIC, Australia.

Based on the title text from the comic that established geohashing, the "official" meetup day was interpreted as being Saturday; that is, the day one would have the best chance of meeting others -- see also Mouseover Day. Additionally it was decided through convention that a good meeting time would be 16:00 local time (4:00 P.M.)¹

However, neither of these are hard rules, and they were formulated at a very different early stage in the sport's history. Nowadays and for quite awhile actually, any date or time can be good (or bad, depending on how many other hashers are near you) for meeting up, especially if prearranged. Note that this only applies to that day’s normal local geohash or globalhash coordinates, if you try to go to an alternate location without telling anyone else, it's highly unlikely you'd meet up with a hasher there (obviously).

¹Or earlier if that would be too close to sunset during the winter, or other quirks of temporal tradition; see your local graticule page for consensus there.

Gallery of recent expeditions

Every expedition should have one photo in that day's gallery, selected manually. Please add yours with the "add" link. If that day's gallery hasn't been started yet, please start it.


Recent Expeditions


Recent and Upcoming Coordinates

The coordinates for the next Saturday meetups, scheduled for 18 April 2026, will be based on the Dow’s opening price published at 09:30 EDT (13:30 UTC) on Friday 17 April. See timeanddate.com to convert this time to your local time zone.

Disclaimer: When any coordinates generated by the Geohashing algorithm fall within a dangerous area, are inaccessible, or would require illegal trespass, DO NOT attempt to reach them. Please research each potential location before attempting to access it. You are expected to use proper judgment in all cases and are solely responsible for your own actions. See more guidelines.


Expeditions being planned

2026-04-14
Zürich, Switzerland globescorer located in a field or meadow near Tuttwil (TG).
Rotterdam, Netherlands MyrtleGlacy In a forest near Alphen

Recent expeditions

2026-04-13
Haifa East, Israel Yosef located among some bushes near Ramat Gilad.
Mannheim, Germany JamHeronArk In a vineyard in Landau in der Pfalz
Fulda, Germany GeorgDerReisende, JamHeronArk The hash lies at the southern entrance to the railway station of Niedermitt...
Bielefeld, Germany Fippe located in a forest in Kloster Oesede.
Rostock, Germany Jens1964 located on a beach at the Baltic sea shore, in Rostock-Hohe Düne, just east...
2026-04-12
Plzeň, Czechia Torodeas Success via 70, u3, sev re50, rb51, rb35, rb37 -- Torodeas (talk) 19:33, 1...
Frankfurt am Main, Germany JamHeronArk By a chapel on the wooded hillside above Schlangenbad
2026-04-11
Portland, Oregon Jim Ag land south of Hillsboro
Frankfurt am Main, Germany Digiphono On a field west of Rabertshausen
Brandenburg, Germany Coyotebush Somewhere
2026-04-10
Verdun, France JamHeronArk In a field of grass in Differdange, Luxembourg
Frankfurt am Main, Germany Digiphono Beside a field north of Langsdorf
Gent, Belgium MyrtleGlacy, Mrs.Glacy In a grassy bit next to a parking lot in Goes.
2026-04-09
San Bernardino, California Bravissimo594 A residential street in Irwindale
Frankfurt am Main, Germany Monotof On a path in the fields closeby.
Düsseldorf, Germany JamHeronArk On the sidewalk by Frankenweg in Meerbusch
Rheine, Germany Fippe located in a front yard in Dörenthe.
Bielefeld, Germany Fippe located next to a driveway in Halstern.
Utena, Lithuania Bingolingo In the Pabežuvis swamp in the Labanoras forest.
Oulu, Finland Kripakko In a swamp in a nature reserve in Haukipudas, Oulu.

Recent non-expeditions

This section documents hash expeditions that geohashers wish they could make, but have not been able to for the reasons stated.

2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2017 - 2020