Qibla Direction in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

How to face the Qibla in Fort Lauderdale

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 64.0° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 56.6° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 7.5° 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 Fort Lauderdale points east-northeast

Fort Lauderdale sits at 26.1° N, 4.7° 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 92°, east. On the globe, the shortest route leaves Fort Lauderdale at 56.6° and swings north over the Atlantic to about 41° N before descending to Arabia, which is why the Qibla from Fort Lauderdale is east-northeast.

Nearby cities

• Miami, FL56.6° ENE · 25 mi away
• Orlando, FL55.3° NE · 184 mi away
• Tampa, FL54.8° NE · 191 mi away
• Jacksonville, FL54.8° NE · 305 mi away
• Atlanta, GA52.3° NE · 585 mi away

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