Online Vastu Compass

ABOUT THE TOOL

What Makes This a Vastu Compass?

A regular compass is great when you simply want to know where North is. A Vastu compass needs a little more detail. This online Vastu compass divides the full circle into 16 directions, so you can check a house, room, entrance, balcony, or wall with a more precise direction label.

When the compass is active, you'll see the current degree and the matching 16-point direction. That could be N, NNE, NE, ENE, E, ESE, SE, SSE, S, SSW, SW, WSW, W, WNW, NW, or NNW. It is still a compass, not a fortune-telling machine in a browser tab.

Why 16 directions matter

Eight directions are plenty for everyday navigation. If you just want to find North, the standard online compass does the job nicely. Vastu direction checks often benefit from a finer split, so this compass uses 16 equal directional zones.

Each zone covers 22.5 degrees. North is centered at 0 degrees, East at 90 degrees, South at 180 degrees, and West at 270 degrees. The extra labels fill the spaces between them: NNE, ENE, ESE, SSE, SSW, WSW, WNW, and NNW. That makes it easier to describe a direction that falls between two familiar compass points.

How to check house Vastu direction

For an overall house or room direction check, start as close to the center of the space as you reasonably can. Hold the phone level and steady. Face the direction you want to measure, or point the top of the phone toward the wall, entrance, balcony, or feature you are checking.

Read the degree and the 16-point direction shown below the compass. If the value seems jumpy, pause for a moment and take another reading. Different Vastu practitioners may use different methods for detailed analysis, but a clean direction reading is a useful first step before any interpretation begins.

Using Camera Overlay with a floor plan

The camera button is especially useful when you have a house floor plan in front of you. Place the plan on a table or another flat surface, turn on Camera Overlay, and point your phone camera at the drawing. The live preview stays behind the compass, so the 16 direction compass can act like a Vastu direction overlay.

You still do the alignment yourself: rotate or position the phone according to the actual North direction of the house or building, then use the overlay to get a quick visual sense of how the 16 zones fall across the plan. The tool does not scan rooms, detect walls, or automatically calculate house floor plan direction. It is a live visual overlay, not a tiny architect hiding in your browser.

Getting a steady reading

We've built the compass to get the best direction reading your phone can provide. Like any magnetic compass, it still has to live in the real world, where magnets and metal like to make things interesting.

Keep the phone away from large speakers, laptops, chargers, vehicles, metal furniture, magnetic phone cases, and other obvious magnetic troublemakers. If the reading looks off, move a little, keep the phone steady, and try again. Taking two or three readings from nearby spots is often enough to spot a bad one.

Vastu compass vs regular compass

The regular compass on this site focuses on the familiar eight directions and a clean degree reading. This Vastu compass keeps the same simple experience but gives you a more detailed 16 direction compass face. Use the regular compass for quick navigation-style checks. Use this page when you want a finer Vastu direction reading.

We are intentionally keeping Vastu advice out of the compass itself for now. The tool tells you the direction; it does not tell you where your kitchen should be, which door guarantees luck, or whether your sofa has offended the universe. Deeper Vastu guidance deserves proper research, not guesswork.