Qibla Direction in Gothenburg, Sweden

How to face the Qibla in Gothenburg

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 133.7° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 139.0° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 5.3° 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 Gothenburg points southeast

At 57.7° N, Gothenburg is 36.3° of latitude north of Makkah. A flat Mercator map stretches the high latitudes, and on it a straight line from Gothenburg to the Kaaba points 150°, south-southeast. The great circle, the shortest path over the globe, starts out at 139.0°, southeast, and that is the bearing this page gives: the great-circle bearing is about 11° to the left of the flat-map line. The Kaaba is 4,619 km (2,870 miles) from Gothenburg. Across the Northern European cities on this site the Qibla runs from 135.5° in Aarhus to 158.2° in Helsinki.

Nearby cities

• Aarhus, Denmark135.5° SE · 203 km away
• Copenhagen, Denmark138.2° SE · 229 km away
• Malmö, Sweden138.8° SE · 242 km away
• Oslo, Norway139.0° SE · 255 km away
• Stockholm, Sweden148.2° SSE · 397 km away

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