Qibla Direction in Brisbane, Queensland

How to face the Qibla in Brisbane

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 269.2° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 280.3° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 11.1° 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 Brisbane points west

Brisbane is in the Southern Hemisphere at 27.5° 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 Brisbane is 280.3°, west. On a flat Mercator map a straight line points 294°, west-northwest; the great circle, the shortest route over the globe, is the one the bearing follows, and from Brisbane the great-circle bearing is about 14° to the left of the flat-map line. The Kaaba is 13,298 km (8,263 miles) away. Across Australia and New Zealand the Qibla runs from 256.4° in Wellington to 295.4° in Perth.

Nearby cities

• Gold Coast, Australia279.8° W · 71 km away
• Sydney, Australia277.5° W · 732 km away
• Canberra, Australia277.8° W · 944 km away
• Melbourne, Australia278.8° W · 1,374 km away
• Adelaide, Australia283.3° WNW · 1,601 km away

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