Qibla Direction in Bolton, England

How to face the Qibla in Bolton

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 118.1° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 118.3° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 0.3° 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 Bolton points east-southeast

From Bolton the Qibla is 118.3° from true north, east-southeast. Bolton lies at 53.6° N, 32.2° of latitude north of Makkah, and on a flat Mercator map a straight line to the Kaaba points 135°, 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 Bolton, the great-circle bearing is about 16° to the left of the flat-map line. Across the UK and Ireland the Qibla runs from 110.6° in Cork to 120.2° in Dundee, so use the bearing for your own city rather than one taken elsewhere.

Nearby cities

• Manchester, UK118.5° ESE · 10 mi away
• Rochdale, UK118.7° ESE · 11 mi away
• Blackburn, UK118.4° ESE · 12 mi away
• Oldham, UK118.6° ESE · 13 mi away
• Burnley, UK118.7° ESE · 16 mi away

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