Qibla Direction in Buffalo, New York

How to face the Qibla in Buffalo

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 65.3° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 55.0° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 10.3° 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 Buffalo points northeast

On a flat wall map, Makkah looks east-southeast of Buffalo: a straight line drawn on a Mercator map points 102°. The earth is round, though, and the shortest path over its surface, a great circle, leaves Buffalo at 55.0° and arcs north over the Atlantic, reaching about 53° N before it turns down toward Arabia. That shorter, curved route is why the Qibla here is northeast, about 47° to the left of the flat-map line.

Nearby cities

• Hamilton, ON54.3° NE · 56 mi away
• Oakville, ON54.4° NE · 57 mi away
• Toronto, ON54.6° NE · 59 mi away
• Mississauga, ON54.4° NE · 62 mi away
• Scarborough, ON54.7° NE · 64 mi away

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