Qibla Direction in Durham, North Carolina

How to face the Qibla in Durham

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 64.9° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 55.6° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 9.3° 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 Durham points northeast

Durham sits at 36.0° N, 14.6° of latitude north of Makkah (21.4° N), so many people picture the Qibla as roughly east, and on a Mercator map the straight line does point 98°, east. On the globe, the shortest route leaves Durham at 55.6° and swings north over the Atlantic to about 48° N before descending to Arabia, which is why the Qibla from Durham is northeast.

Nearby cities

• Raleigh, NC55.8° NE · 21 mi away
• Charlotte, NC54.4° NE · 121 mi away
• Richmond, VA56.4° ENE · 134 mi away
• Fairfax, VA56.4° ENE · 216 mi away
• Alexandria, VA56.6° ENE · 219 mi away

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