Earth rotation speed calculator

Find the speed of a point carried around Earth’s axis at your latitude, then compare it with the equator. A latitude circle becomes smaller toward either pole.

Tangential speed1,041.15 km/h
Same speed289.208 m/s
Latitude-circle radius3,966.041 km
Inward rotational acceleration0.02109 m/s²

At 51.5° latitude, a point travels at 1,041.15 km/h around the axis. Its latitude-circle radius is 3,966.041 km; neither speed nor the listed inward acceleration is the local gravitational acceleration.

Read this calculation

v = 2π R cos φ / 86,164.0905 s

A point at latitude φ travels around a circle of radius R cos φ once per sidereal day. Its speed falls to zero at the poles and to half the equatorial value at 60° latitude.

Constant speed alone does not produce a sensation of motion. Circular motion still has inward acceleration; the result lists that acceleration separately from the speed and from gravity.