Qibla Direction in Hamburg, Germany

How to face the Qibla in Hamburg

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 128.7° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 133.0° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 4.3° 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 Hamburg points southeast

Hamburg is 4,373 km (2,717 miles) from the Kaaba, and measured clockwise from true north the Qibla here is 133.0°, southeast. A straight line on a flat Mercator map would point 144°, southeast. That map stretches distances more the further you are from the equator, so the line that looks straight on it is not the shortest route. The shortest route over the globe is the great circle, and its starting direction from Hamburg is the 133.0° bearing; the great-circle bearing is about 11° to the left of the flat-map line. Across the Western European cities on this site the Qibla runs from 116.3° in Marseille to 136.7° in Vienna.

Nearby cities

• Berlin, Germany136.7° SE · 255 km away
• Copenhagen, Denmark138.2° SE · 289 km away
• Cologne, Germany126.7° SE · 356 km away
• Amsterdam, Netherlands125.6° SE · 365 km away
• Frankfurt, Germany128.1° SE · 393 km away

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