Qibla Direction in Birmingham, England

How to face the Qibla in Birmingham

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 117.4° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 118.0° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 0.6° 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 Birmingham points east-southeast

From Birmingham the Qibla is 118.0° from true north, east-southeast. Birmingham lies at 52.5° N, 31.1° of latitude north of Makkah, and on a flat Mercator map a straight line to the Kaaba points 134°, southeast. The bearing on this page follows the great circle instead: the shortest path between two points on the curved surface of the earth. From Birmingham, the great-circle bearing is about 16° to the left of the flat-map line. Across the UK and Ireland the Qibla runs from 114.1° in Dublin to 119.5° in Edinburgh, so use the bearing for your own city rather than one taken elsewhere.

Nearby cities

• Leicester, UK118.9° ESE · 33 mi away
• Sheffield, UK119.2° ESE · 64 mi away
• Manchester, UK118.5° ESE · 70 mi away
• Oldham, UK118.6° ESE · 73 mi away
• Luton, UK119.0° ESE · 75 mi away

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