How to enter Longitude and Latitude position

Hello,
I have done this with positions given in other formats like hddd°mm.mmm and other formats, but I cant figure out how to change it, so that I can input the position in Longitude and latitude format.

That is a lat/long format ...

I think you should give us an example of the latitude and longitude you are trying to enter. Make sure to write all the characters you see, including ' and '' and . and °.

As Sussamb points out, the format you previously used in the watch was also a latitude/longitude format. So it may only be a question of the notation being a bit different, or the use of decimals being different.

Fair enough.

This is the position Info I have from the shelter location
Degrees Lat Long
Longitude : 9.7331559
Latitude : 54.90231878

I expect that to be equal to:
Longitude : N9.7331559°
Latitude : E54.90231878°

But, how do I enter those into the Fenix 5. My current format in the Fenix 5 is hddd°mm.mmm
I suspect I need to convert them to Degrees Minutes or Degrees Minutes Seconds

Hey, that is my home address! I have no shelters in my garden, but you are welcome to pitch a tent.

Joke aside:
Your assumptions about the format seem correct to me, except that you have switched E and N. You have two options:
1. Change the format in your watch.
2. Convert the values to the format your watch is using.

Re. 1:
Go into Settings | System | Format | Pos. Format | Format
Select hddd.ddddd°

Re. 2:
You can convert from hddd.ddddd° to hddd°mm.mmm' this way:
Replace the numbers before the decimal point with a 0 and multiply the result by 60.
Use the result as the mm.mmm' part of your input.
And use the numbers you replaced by 0 as the ddd° part of your input.

Example, using your longitude:
Replace the first 9 in 9.7331559 with a 0: 0.7331559
Multiply by 60: 60 * 0.7331559 = 43.989
So the result becomes 9°43.989'

Then we only need the N/S E/W part. I don't know if there is any generally recognized standard for the orientation of positive/negative coordinates. But Google uses this:
Longitude negative: W
Longitude positive: E
Latitude negative: S
Latitude positive: N

So the final result becomes E 9°43.989'

Using the same calculation, your latitude becomes N 54°54.139'

...which is approximately 25 km east and 65 km south of my garden, estimating by the difference in coordinates...

Hi Allan,

Yes, you are right. I suspect with your username, that you live en the same country as I am.
The shelter location is for one of the shelters on the "Gendarmstien". I plan to run the whole 84km Gendarmsti in a few weeks, with two shelter stays during the trip.

Thank you for clarifying the conversion. I didn't know that it was so simple to do actually, so that is now noted for future conversions.

You are also correct about me switching the N and E orientations, it was just to see if you were awake ;-)

Thank you for you're input. I now have my 2 shelter locations saved to my watch, thanks to your explanation.