Qibla Direction in Hobart, Tasmania

How to face the Qibla in Hobart

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 259.3° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 275.0° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 15.6° 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 Hobart points west

Hobart is in the Southern Hemisphere at 42.9° 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 Hobart is 275.0°, west. On a flat Mercator map a straight line points 303°, west-northwest; the great circle, the shortest route over the globe, is the one the bearing follows, and from Hobart the great-circle bearing is about 28° to the left of the flat-map line. The Kaaba is 13,008 km (8,083 miles) away. Across Australia and New Zealand the Qibla runs from 255.9° in Christchurch to 295.4° in Perth.

Nearby cities

• Melbourne, Australia278.8° W · 598 km away
• Canberra, Australia277.8° W · 859 km away
• Sydney, Australia277.5° W · 1,057 km away
• Adelaide, Australia283.3° WNW · 1,162 km away
• Gold Coast, Australia279.8° W · 1,741 km away

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