Qibla Direction in Louisville, Kentucky

How to face the Qibla in Louisville

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 55.7° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 50.6° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 5.2° 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 Louisville points northeast

Louisville sits at 38.3° N, 16.8° 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 99°, east. On the globe, the shortest route leaves Louisville at 50.6° and swings north over the Atlantic to about 53° N before descending to Arabia, which is why the Qibla from Louisville is northeast.

Nearby cities

• Cincinnati, OH51.4° NE · 89 mi away
• Indianapolis, IN50.1° NE · 107 mi away
• Nashville, TN50.2° NE · 155 mi away
• Columbus, OH52.3° NE · 189 mi away
• St. Louis, MO47.2° NE · 242 mi away

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