north northeast
Between cardinal points
North northeast is a compass direction halfway between north and northeast, corresponding to 22.5 degrees from true north.
It belongs to the sixteen-point compass rose, which subdivides the four cardinal and four intercardinal directions into finer increments.
Abbreviated NNE, it appears in navigation, meteorology, and surveying when more precision than the basic eight compass points is needed.
The wind shifted to north northeast overnight.
- NNEDirection between two cardinals
- pointExact location or meaning
- azimuthHorizontal directional angle
- polarOf extreme latitudes
- polar ice capFrozen mass at poles
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north northeastsouth southwest
Bearing at 202.5 degrees
SSW · south · southwest · south-southwest · due south
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