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Bearing Calculator

Find the initial great-circle bearing and cardinal direction between two WGS84 coordinates.

Initial great-circle bearing288.33° W
Initial heading288.33°
Final heading108.33°
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How it works & useful details

How it works & limits

This is the initial heading of a spherical great-circle path using the WGS84 mean-radius model. The final heading usually differs after a long journey.

It is not a rhumb-line calculation and does not provide a route, magnetic declination or navigational clearance.

Private local calculation

Coordinates and pasted data stay in this browser tab. These tools use no map tiles, geocoding, routing, elevation data or network requests.