Our empirical atomic point dipole (APUDI) model simply allows the calculation of ring-current produced chemical shifts of the ring protons of 17 planar benzenoid hydrocarbons with high accuracy. It simulates the effect of the anisotropy of diamagnetic susceptibility of the π-systems by assumption of two effective atomic magnetic point dipoles, located perpendicular above and below each carbon atom of the π-system at 70 pm, the distance of the maximum of π-electron density. Application of the McConnell equation on each of these point dipoles leads after summation for each ring proton j to a corresponding geometry factor GF j which was correlated by linear least squares method with 160 literature values of experimental chemical shifts leading to a value of (- 12.5± 0.7) × 10 -36m 3, the effective anisotropy of diamagnetic susceptibility per atomic point dipole with a correlation coefficient of 0.943. The chemical shift values may be obtained in the APUDI-model by the least squares equation δ calc j p me>= - 12.5 × 10 -36 GF j - 5.16. This empirically determined slope may be interpreted as the average value of the z-component of the experimental diamagnetic susceptibility per atomic point dipole of these benzenoid aromatic compounds. Besides the simple applicability the APUDI-model yields superior results for the chemical shifts of sterically crowded protons in comparison to many known ring current models.