Qibla Direction in Houston, Texas

How to face the Qibla in Houston

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 43.8° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 45.5° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 1.7° 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 Houston points northeast

Houston sits at 29.8° N, 8.3° of latitude north of Makkah (21.4° N), so many people picture the Qibla as roughly east, and on a Mercator map the straight line does point 94°, east. On the globe, the shortest route leaves Houston at 45.5° and swings north over the Atlantic to about 52° N before descending to Arabia, which is why the Qibla from Houston is northeast.

Nearby cities

• Sugar Land, TX45.3° NE · 19 mi away
• Austin, TX43.5° NE · 146 mi away
• San Antonio, TX43.2° NE · 189 mi away
• Dallas, TX43.5° NE · 225 mi away
• Irving, TX43.4° NE · 231 mi away

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