Qibla direction by city

Type a city name or choose a country, then open the matching card. The country list includes only countries that have a city page, and the count shows how many pages match your search. Each card shows its country and its page language, because not every page is in English. The London page is for London, United Kingdom. For London, Ontario, open the finder with the London, Canada preset.

Bearing

Degrees clockwise from true north. This is the spherical initial great-circle bearing from the city-centre point towards the Kaaba reference.

Distance

Great-circle kilometres from that point to the reference target at 21.4225241, 39.8261818. It is a calculated figure, not a surveyed one.

Origin

The approximate city-centre coordinates named on the page. This is not your address or building.

The bearing is a fixed target direction. Your phone’s heading is the direction the phone is facing at this moment. Magnetic declination correction puts both on the same north reference so you can compare them. It does not turn the phone towards Qibla. The guide to finding Qibla explains how to line them up.

City pages are written in different languages, and each card is labelled with the language of its page.

• English: Toronto, Mississauga, Calgary, Ottawa, Montreal, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Vancouver in Canada; London, Birmingham, Manchester and Bradford in the United Kingdom; and Chicago, Houston, New York City and Dallas in the United States.
• Arabic: Riyadh and Cairo, also listed in the Arabic city directory.
• Bahasa Indonesia: Jakarta and Bandung, also listed in the Indonesian city directory.
• Türkçe (Turkish): Istanbul and Ankara, also listed in the Turkish city directory.
• Bahasa Melayu (Malay): Kuala Lumpur and Shah Alam, also listed in the Malay city directory.

On this directory, the language switch opens the city directory in the language you choose. On a city page, it opens the same city’s page in that language if one exists. If there is no such page, it opens that language’s finder with the same city selected, so you keep your city without needing a translated page.

Cities in the same country can need quite different directions. The table shows the Qibla from five selected Canadian city points. It is a sample, not a list of every Canadian page here.

Across these five city points, the bearing ranges from 25.0° in Calgary to 58.7° in Montreal, a spread of 33.7°. That range covers only the five points listed, not every place in Canada. Calgary and Edmonton both fall under north-northeast, but they still differ by 0.3°. Use the figure for your own city or location.

A city page does not detect where you are. It starts at the city’s stated centre. A valid shared link overrides that centre, and a malformed shared link shows an error instead. Opening a city page does not save a location or tick Remember this location on this device.

A city centre is only an approximate starting point. To use a more specific origin:

1. Tap Use my location. After you give permission, the browser supplies one position, usually with a reported uncertainty in metres. It does not keep tracking you.
2. Or open Enter coordinates instead, type decimal coordinates and choose Find my Qibla. Typed coordinates are only as reliable as their source, and they can be a place you plan to visit.
3. Compare your result with the fixed city reference above the finder. That reference stays on the city centre.

A more specific point is not automatically more accurate. A city link shares only the selected public city and country, but anyone who receives a coordinate link can see its coordinates, label and any uncertainty radius attached to that point, whether it was device-reported, saved, shared or typed. For help choosing, read city preset or current location.

The English city pages and the Jakarta and Bandung pages each offer a downloadable SVG card showing the city centre’s bearing, distance and true-north guidance. A fixed card always shows the city-centre value, even if you choose a different point in the finder.

The Riyadh, Cairo, Istanbul, Ankara, Kuala Lumpur and Shah Alam pages have no fixed standalone city card. They use the finder’s printable reference instead. It records the point the finder is currently using. You can download it as an SVG, print it or save it as a PDF where your browser supports that, and add an optional QR code.

Before you use any printed reference, line up its N with a trusted true-north reference. The printed arrow cannot align itself. It is a static geographic reference, not a live reading or a sign aligned to your room.

A missing page does not mean a missing calculation. The main finder has 107 approximate city-centre presets, accepts decimal coordinates, offers a map and can request your device location once after you tap. If your city is not among the presets, use your location, the map or coordinates.

The bearing is geographic, so it works for any valid point except a few guarded cases: very close to the Kaaba reference, near the opposite side of the globe, or exactly at a geographic pole.

Search 107 city presets