Qibla Direction in Helsinki, Finland

How to face the Qibla in Helsinki

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 147.7° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 158.2° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 10.5° 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 Helsinki points south-southeast

At 60.2° N, Helsinki is 38.7° of latitude north of Makkah. A flat Mercator map stretches the high latitudes, and on it a straight line from Helsinki to the Kaaba points 165°, south-southeast. The great circle, the shortest path over the globe, starts out at 158.2°, south-southeast, and that is the bearing this page gives: the great-circle bearing is about 6° to the left of the flat-map line. The Kaaba is 4,464 km (2,774 miles) from Helsinki. Across the Northern European cities on this site the Qibla runs from 135.5° in Aarhus to 158.2° in Helsinki.

Nearby cities

• Stockholm, Sweden148.2° SSE · 396 km away
• Oslo, Norway139.0° SE · 787 km away
• Gothenburg, Sweden139.0° SE · 791 km away
• Malmö, Sweden138.8° SE · 867 km away
• Copenhagen, Denmark138.2° SE · 883 km away

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