The construction of world magnetic charts entails the adoption for the chosen epoch of dip pole positions and of secular‐change patterns in their vicinity, thereby specifying implicitly the rates and directions of their motions. In the procedure leading to the forthcoming charts for epoch 1965.0, azimuthal components of the field vector are derived for both the northern and southern polar regions, and their isolines are used to establish field configurations to be incorporated with data for other areas in a final mapping based on spherical harmonic analysis. The paper describes details of the special polar techniques and reports the adopted positions and drifts of the dip poles. Currently, the north magnetic clip pole is moving in a northerly direction at a rate of approximately 12 kilometers per year, and the south magnetic dip pole is moving in a northwesterly direction at about 14 kilometers per year.