Qibla Direction in Auckland, New Zealand

How to face the Qibla in Auckland

1. With your phone: tap Open the live Qibla compass, allow location (and, on iPhone, motion access), then turn slowly until the Kaaba on the dial reaches the mark at the top.
2. With a regular compass: hold it flat, turn it until the needle sits on N, then face 240.9° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 261.2° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 20.3° off.
3. With the map: open the live compass, switch to Map and follow the gold line from your position to the Kaaba. It does not use the compass at all.

If a phone compass looks wrong, move the phone in a figure-eight a few times, away from laptops, speakers, car dashboards and magnetic cases, and hold it flat while you turn.

Why the Qibla from Auckland points west

Auckland is in the Southern Hemisphere at 36.8° S, and Makkah is in the Northern Hemisphere at 21.4° N, so the path to the Kaaba crosses the equator on its way. Measured clockwise from true north, the Qibla from Auckland is 261.2°, west. On a flat Mercator map a straight line points 295°, west-northwest; the great circle, the shortest route over the globe, is the one the bearing follows, and from Auckland the great-circle bearing is about 33° to the left of the flat-map line. The Kaaba is 15,365 km (9,547 miles) away. Across Australia and New Zealand the Qibla runs from 256.4° in Wellington to 295.4° in Perth.

Nearby cities

• Wellington, New Zealand256.4° WSW · 493 km away
• Sydney, Australia277.5° W · 2,156 km away
• Gold Coast, Australia279.8° W · 2,226 km away
• Brisbane, Australia280.3° W · 2,289 km away
• Canberra, Australia277.8° W · 2,304 km away

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