Calculate distance between latitude longitude pairs with Python

haversine.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Haversine formula example in Python
# Author: Wayne Dyck

import math

def distance(origin, destination):
    lat1, lon1 = origin
    lat2, lon2 = destination
    radius = 6371 # km

    dlat = math.radians(lat2-lat1)
    dlon = math.radians(lon2-lon1)
    a = math.sin(dlat/2) * math.sin(dlat/2) + math.cos(math.radians(lat1)) \
        * math.cos(math.radians(lat2)) * math.sin(dlon/2) * math.sin(dlon/2)
    c = 2 * math.atan2(math.sqrt(a), math.sqrt(1-a))
    d = radius * c

    return d

Hello, thank you very much for this masterpiece. But my concern is how to do so when you have an excel file, I have bunch of cities and finding the distance from those cities to one reference point (which is also a city). Thanks

Hello @Zagroz, did you able to find the distances from an excel file using this code? I am also stuck in similar kind of situation. Thank you!

Hello, thank you very much for this masterpiece. But my concern is how to do so when you have an excel file, I have a bunch of cities and finding the distance from those cities to one reference point (which is also a city). Thanks

Hello @Zagroz, did you able to find the distances from an excel file using this code? I am also stuck in a similar kind of situation. Thank you!

Hello, I have implemented something similar to what you are trying to do. You can visit my repo which involves what you desire. The link is here:

https://github.com/vivek1240/k-means-clustering-via-haversine-distance-/blob/master/clustering_stores_via_haversine_distance_kmeans.ipynb

Please inform if this solves your problem.
All the Best!!

Thanks for the eloquent and easily understandable code!

Thanks for this, can anyone explain what are 'a' and 'c' assignments , can we have better names for these variables ?