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Wind direction

Quality:

Wind direction - geographic direction from which a wind blows. Article “Wind direction” in English Wikipedia has 23.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Wind direction” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Wind direction”, its content was written by 95 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 303 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 105 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1301 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #44140 in December 2008
  • Global: #13019 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #43656 in September 2020
  • Global: #38755 in March 2011

There are 21 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
Windrichtung
26.1763
2Hindi (hi)
पवन की दिशा
25.5069
3Czech (cs)
Směr větru
25.259
4Norwegian (no)
Vindretning
23.6571
5English (en)
Wind direction
23.4963
6Portuguese (pt)
Direção do vento
21.8514
7Arabic (ar)
اتجاه رياح
17.4657
8Japanese (ja)
風向
14.6328
9Indonesian (id)
Arah angin
14.5019
10Ukrainian (uk)
Напрямок вітру
10.4199
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Wind direction" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Wind direction
2 228 694
2German (de)
Windrichtung
786 273
3Russian (ru)
Направление ветра
406 418
4Japanese (ja)
風向
404 345
5Ukrainian (uk)
Напрямок вітру
117 400
6Chinese (zh)
風向
86 915
7Czech (cs)
Směr větru
71 774
8Hindi (hi)
पवन की दिशा
66 687
9Arabic (ar)
اتجاه رياح
41 246
10Turkish (tr)
Rüzgâr yönü
39 823
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Wind direction" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Wind direction
6 737
2German (de)
Windrichtung
2 049
3Russian (ru)
Направление ветра
1 422
4Chinese (zh)
風向
391
5Japanese (ja)
風向
376
6Arabic (ar)
اتجاه رياح
268
7Portuguese (pt)
Direção do vento
255
8Korean (ko)
풍향
227
9Czech (cs)
Směr větru
207
10Turkish (tr)
Rüzgâr yönü
195
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Wind direction" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Wind direction
95
2German (de)
Windrichtung
84
3Japanese (ja)
風向
21
4Russian (ru)
Направление ветра
14
5Czech (cs)
Směr větru
13
6Norwegian (no)
Vindretning
11
7Turkish (tr)
Rüzgâr yönü
10
8Chinese (zh)
風向
8
9Belarusian (be)
Кірунак ветру
7
10Hindi (hi)
पवन की दिशा
7
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Wind direction" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Wind direction
2
2Arabic (ar)
اتجاه رياح
0
3Azerbaijani (az)
Küləyin istiqaməti
0
4Belarusian (be)
Кірунак ветру
0
5Catalan (ca)
Direcció del vent
0
6Czech (cs)
Směr větru
0
7German (de)
Windrichtung
0
8Esperanto (eo)
Direkto de vento
0
9Persian (fa)
جهت باد
0
10Hindi (hi)
पवन की दिशा
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Wind direction" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Ukrainian (uk)
Напрямок вітру
240
2Russian (ru)
Направление ветра
206
3German (de)
Windrichtung
190
4Japanese (ja)
風向
143
5Czech (cs)
Směr větru
120
6English (en)
Wind direction
105
7Chinese (zh)
風向
65
8Persian (fa)
جهت باد
62
9Esperanto (eo)
Direkto de vento
41
10Azerbaijani (az)
Küləyin istiqaməti
27
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Scores

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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
اتجاه رياح
azAzerbaijani
Küləyin istiqaməti
beBelarusian
Кірунак ветру
caCatalan
Direcció del vent
csCzech
Směr větru
deGerman
Windrichtung
enEnglish
Wind direction
eoEsperanto
Direkto de vento
faPersian
جهت باد
hiHindi
पवन की दिशा
idIndonesian
Arah angin
jaJapanese
風向
koKorean
풍향
ltLithuanian
Vėjo kryptis
noNorwegian
Vindretning
ptPortuguese
Direção do vento
ruRussian
Направление ветра
trTurkish
Rüzgâr yönü
ukUkrainian
Напрямок вітру
viVietnamese
Hướng gió
zhChinese
風向

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#43656
09.2020
Global:
#38755
03.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#44140
12.2008
Global:
#13019
11.2002

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Wind direction from Wikipedia articles about Westwind, Wind, Anemometer, Wind speed and Nordwind. Whereas reading the article about Wind direction people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Weather vane, Cardinal direction, Wind rose, Anemoscope and Anemometer.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 風向
zh: 風向
ko: 풍향

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