Qibla Direction in Dublin, Ireland

How to face the Qibla in Dublin

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 115.2° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 114.1° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 1.1° 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 Dublin points east-southeast

From Dublin the Qibla is 114.1° from true north, east-southeast. Dublin lies at 53.3° N, 31.9° of latitude north of Makkah, and on a flat Mercator map a straight line to the Kaaba points 132°, 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 Dublin, the great-circle bearing is about 18° 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

• Blackburn, UK118.4° ESE · 253 km away
• Manchester, UK118.5° ESE · 267 km away
• Oldham, UK118.6° ESE · 276 km away
• Cardiff, UK115.7° ESE · 295 km away
• Bradford, UK119.3° ESE · 301 km away

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