About Same Latitude

Same Latitude is a daily geography game. Every day it names a city and asks one question: how far north or south does it sit? You don’t guess a number — you guess other cities, and each one reports how many degrees of latitude off you were and which way to move. Six guesses, five closeness bands from very far to super close, and a result you can share without ever giving the answer away.

Two tracks, three puzzles a day

Normal draws its targets from roughly 1,550 cities over 300,000 people, one per metro area. Easy restricts the target to capitals and the most recognizable large cities — a gentler pool to guess against, while still letting you search the full world atlas to triangulate. Each track runs three independent puzzles a day and keeps its own streak, so finishing all three Normal games never touches your Easy stats or vice versa.

Why latitude

Most geography trivia tests whether you’ve memorized a map. Same Latitude tests something a little different: whether you have a working mental model of where things actually sit on the globe — which cities share a climate belt, which ones you’d expect to be neighbors on a map but sit a full continent apart in latitude. A wrong guess still teaches you something, because the game tells you exactly which direction to correct.

Where the data comes from

City names, populations, and coordinates come from GeoNames, licensed CC BY 4.0, filtered down to populated places and deduplicated so a city’s outlying district can’t stand in for the city itself. Photos on the result cards come from Wikimedia Commons, credited to their photographers on the card itself. Nothing else is fetched at request time — the puzzle set is fixed and computed the same way for every player.

No account, no server

There’s nothing to sign up for. Your streak, stats, and today’s progress live only in your browser’s local storage — see the privacy policy for exactly what that means. Same Latitude is an independent project, built and kept running by one person who likes maps.