Qibla Direction in Hamilton, New Zealand

How to face the Qibla in Hamilton

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 238.8° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 259.8° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 21.0° 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 Hamilton points west

Hamilton is in the Southern Hemisphere at 37.8° S, and Makkah is in the Northern Hemisphere at 21.4° N, so the path to the Kaaba crosses the equator on its way. Measured clockwise from true north, the Qibla from Hamilton is 259.8°, west. On a flat Mercator map a straight line points 295°, west-northwest; the great circle, the shortest route over the globe, is the one the bearing follows, and from Hamilton the great-circle bearing is about 35° to the left of the flat-map line. The Kaaba is 15,392 km (9,564 miles) away. Across Australia and New Zealand the Qibla runs from 255.9° in Christchurch to 295.4° in Perth.

Nearby cities

• Auckland, New Zealand261.2° W · 114 km away
• Wellington, New Zealand256.4° WSW · 392 km away
• Christchurch, New Zealand255.9° WSW · 677 km away
• Sydney, Australia277.5° W · 2,207 km away
• Gold Coast, Australia279.8° W · 2,305 km away

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