Qibla Direction in Cork, Ireland

How to face the Qibla in Cork

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 112.4° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 110.6° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 1.8° 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 Cork points east-southeast

From Cork the Qibla is 110.6° from true north, east-southeast. Cork lies at 51.9° N, 30.5° of latitude north of Makkah, and on a flat Mercator map a straight line to the Kaaba points 129°, 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 Cork, the great-circle bearing is about 18° 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

• Dublin, Ireland114.1° ESE · 220 km away
• Cardiff, UK115.7° ESE · 368 km away
• Newport, UK116.0° ESE · 379 km away
• Bristol, UK116.3° ESE · 409 km away
• Preston, UK118.2° ESE · 440 km away

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