GPS Speedometer

Free GPS Speedometer

A speedometer in your browser that reads your phone's GPS: your speed on a real dial with a speed limit warning, big digits and a windscreen view, trips with the route drawn by speed, splits and laps, and a 0 to 100 timer. Your position is used on your device only.

Speedometer

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Speed

Laps

Press Lap during a trip to time a stretch of road. Laps can also start by themselves every kilometre (Settings, Trips and GPS).

Your location is read only after you press Show my speed or another button that needs your speed, worked out on this device and never sent anywhere. Keep your eyes on the road. Keys on the Drive screen: Space starts or pauses a trip, L marks a lap, B big digits, W windscreen.

How to Use the GPS Speedometer

1

Show your speed

Press Show my speed and allow location when your browser asks. Under an open sky the first fix takes a few seconds; the lamp above the dial turns green and the needle follows your speed.

2

Pick what you are in

Tap the vehicle in the dial's top right corner: car, motorbike, bicycle, on foot, boat, train or plane. It sets how far the dial goes and how slowly you can move before you count as stopped.

3

Set your speed limit

Tap the round sign at the top left and pick the limit of your road. Above it the dial turns red and a chime, beeps, a vibration or a spoken "Slow down" reminds you.

4

Record a trip

Press Start trip before you set off, Pause at a stop and Finish when you arrive. The trip computer counts distance, time, average and top speed, climb, time over the limit and laps.

5

Look back at trips

Open a trip under Trips to see its route coloured by speed, the speed and height charts, splits and laps, play it back on the dial or save it as GPX, KML, CSV or GeoJSON.

6

Use the tools

On a closed road or a track, time 0 to 100 or a quarter mile. Check your car's speedometer, keep an average speed zone under the limit, watch the g-meter or read out your position.

Why Use This GPS Speedometer?

🎯 A real instrument

A dial with a second needle that stays at the trip's top speed, an odometer that rolls like a car's, a heading strip and a speed chart, sized to fit a phone in a holder upright or on its side.

πŸŒ™ Windscreen view

At night, lay the phone flat under the windscreen and read the mirrored digits in the glass, in green, white, amber or blue. Big digits shows the same without the mirror for a phone holder.

πŸ“Š Trips you can study

Every trip keeps its route coloured by speed, splits for each kilometre or mile, the time spent at each speed, height and laps, drawn from your own points with no map fetched underneath.

⏱️ Performance timer

0 to 100, 60 to 100, eighth and quarter mile, one kilometre and braking, with crossing times worked out between readings and an optional one-foot rollout. Results stay on your device.

πŸ“ Your own files

Open GPX files from a watch or bike computer, back up every trip to one file and move it to another phone, and save any trip as GPX, KML, CSV or GeoJSON for other apps.

πŸ”’ Stays on your device

Your position is read only after you press Show my speed, worked out in this browser and never uploaded. Trips stay in this browser until you delete them, and the Camera view saves straight to your device.

GPS Speed, Speedometers and Height Explained

πŸ›°οΈ Where the speed comes from

A phone's GPS receiver reports a speed with each position, usually once a second. When a device reports none, as many laptops do, the tool works the speed out from the change of position over a few seconds, which reacts later. Readings the phone itself marks as vague are kept out of the distance and the top speed.

πŸš— Why the dashboard shows more

Car speedometers may read high but never low: the international rule for them, UN Regulation No. 39, says the speed shown must never be less than the true speed and may be up to 10 percent plus 4 km/h more. That is why the GPS figure is often a little lower than the dashboard.

⛰️ Height from GPS

Browsers give the GPS height above a mathematical model of the Earth's shape, the WGS84 ellipsoid, not above sea level, so it can differ from the height on a map or a road sign. GPS height also wobbles more than position, so a climb is counted only once it clearly rises above the wobble.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the GPS Speedometer free, and is my location uploaded?

It is free, with no registration. Like every page on ZeroDataUpload, it is supported by advertising. Your position is read only after you press Show my speed or another button that needs your speed, worked out in your browser and never sent to a server. Trips, timer results and settings stay in this browser; Delete, under Settings, removes the trips and results.

Why does this page ask for my location?

A speedometer needs your position, second by second. This is the one page of zerodataupload.com that may ask for it; the rest of the site, and anything embedded in this page such as the ads, cannot. Your browser asks you first. If you say no, the demo drive, GPX files, saved trips and the motion-sensor g-meter still work.

How accurate is the speed?

Under an open sky a phone's GPS usually follows your speed closely, a second or so behind. Tall buildings, tunnels, car parks and a phone deep in a bag weaken the signal: the lamp above the dial turns amber, and vague readings are kept out of the distance and the top speed. Laptops usually find their position from Wi-Fi networks and often cannot measure speed at all; the demo drive shows how the tool behaves with real readings.

Why does my car's speedometer show more than the GPS?

Car speedometers may read high but never low. The international rule for them, UN Regulation No. 39, says the speed shown must never be less than the true speed and may be up to 10 percent plus 4 km/h more. That is why the dashboard often shows a little more than the GPS. The Speedometer check, under Tools, measures your own car's difference with a passenger reading the dashboard.

Can I use it while driving?

Set it up before you drive and keep your eyes on the road; let a passenger handle the screen. Use a proper phone holder and follow your country's rules on phones in vehicles. Use the performance timer only on a closed road or a track, never in traffic. The speed limit warning is a reminder you set yourself, not a list of real limits: the road signs always apply.

Does it keep working with the screen off?

Most phones stop giving websites the location when the screen goes off or the browser moves to the background, so keep this page open with the screen on during a trip; the tool can keep the screen on for you (Settings, Screen). A running trip is kept every few seconds, so if the browser closes you can carry on or save it the next time you open the page.

Where are my trips, photos and videos kept?

Trips are kept in this browser's own storage on this device until you delete them. Browsers can clear a site's data when a device runs low on space, so use Back up all trips, under Trips, to keep a copy or move them to another phone. Photos and videos from the Camera view are saved straight to your device as files and never uploaded.

Speed limit

Pick the limit of the road you are on. The dial turns red above it and the speedometer warns you.

Warn me above the limit

What are you in?

This sets how far the dial goes and how slowly you can move before you count as stopped.

Finish this trip?

A trip was still running

Are you sure?

Route, coloured by speed

Drawn from your own GPS points with no map underneath, so nothing about where you went is fetched or sent.

Speed

Height

Time at each speed

Splits

KmTimeAverageTop

How the GPS Speedometer works

The speedometer reads your phone's GPS, the same satellites a sat nav uses. Press Show my speed and allow location. The big number is your speed; the needle follows it. A trip records your route, distance, time, height and laps; Finish saves it under Trips.

How accurate is it?

Under an open sky a phone's GPS usually follows your speed closely, a second or so behind. Car speedometers may read high but never low (UN Regulation No. 39), so the speedometer often shows a little less than your car. Expect gaps in tunnels and multi-storey car parks. Readings the phone marks as vague are kept out of the distance and top speed. The height is GPS height above the WGS84 ellipsoid, not above sea level.

Getting a GPS fix

Your privacy

Your position is read only after you press Show my speed or another button that needs your speed. Everything is worked out in this browser; your position, trips, photos and videos are never uploaded. Trips stay on this device until you delete them; use Back up all trips under Trips to keep a copy or move them to another phone. Like every page on ZeroDataUpload, this page shows ads and uses analytics, as the Privacy Policy explains.

Keep your eyes on the road. Set things up before you drive, or let a passenger use the speedometer.