Vastu Direction Checker

A Vastu direction check tells you which of the eight directions a room, door or feature falls in, measured from the centre of your home, and how traditional Vastu reads that placement. The result is only as good as the direction you give it, so measure carefully.

Finding directions correctly

1. Stand near the centre of the home: the middle of the whole plan, not the middle of one room.
2. Open the compass on your phone and calibrate it if asked. Hold the phone flat, away from steel almirahs, grilles, appliances and wiring, which can pull the reading.
3. Face the room or door you want to check and note the angle in degrees.
4. Take two or three readings from slightly different spots. If they disagree widely, something metallic is interfering.

Many phone compasses offer true north or magnetic north. Across most of India the difference is small; just use the same setting for every reading. The facing of the house itself is the direction you look towards when you stand in the main doorway facing out.

Dividing into eight directions

Each direction covers 45°:

• North: 337.5° to 22.5°
• North-East: 22.5° to 67.5°
• East: 67.5° to 112.5°
• South-East: 112.5° to 157.5°
• South: 157.5° to 202.5°
• South-West: 202.5° to 247.5°
• West: 247.5° to 292.5°
• North-West: 292.5° to 337.5°

Example: from the centre, your kitchen lies at 130°. That falls between 112.5° and 157.5°, so the kitchen is in the South-East. Some schools divide the plan more finely, into 16 zones of 22.5° each; this checker uses the eight main directions and the centre.

Each placement is described as recommended, workable or worth reviewing, following common traditional guidance. Texts and schools differ on many placements, so treat the result as a general indication for reflection, not a reading of your home.

A placement worth reviewing is not a defect, and it is not a reason for fear or demolition. In an existing home, the first steps are almost always non-structural: how the room is used, where the bed, desk or stove sits, lighting, ventilation, colours and movement. Structural change is worth considering only when it is genuinely justified.

A direction is also only one part of the picture. How the room actually works, its light, air, size and the people who use it, matters as much as where it sits.

To understand the options, see Vastu without demolition and Vastu for home. For a full look at your plan alongside your birth chart, see Astro-Vastu.