Qibla Direction in Lisbon, Portugal

How to face the Qibla in Lisbon

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 98.8° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 97.9° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 0.9° 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 Lisbon points east

Lisbon is at 38.7° N, 17.3° of latitude north of Makkah and 5,020 km (3,119 miles) from the Kaaba. On a flat Mercator map the straight line between them points 112°, east-southeast; on the globe, the shortest path, called a great circle, leaves Lisbon at 97.9°, east. From Lisbon, the great-circle bearing is about 14° to the left of the flat-map line. Across the Southern European cities on this site the Qibla runs from 97.9° in Lisbon to 123.6° in Milan.

Nearby cities

• Madrid, Spain104.0° ESE · 502 km away
• Valencia, Spain105.8° ESE · 760 km away
• Barcelona, Spain110.6° ESE · 1,006 km away
• Toulouse, France112.4° ESE · 1,038 km away
• Marseille, France116.3° ESE · 1,317 km away

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