Qibla Direction in Madrid, Spain

How to face the Qibla in Madrid

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 103.3° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 104.0° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 0.7° 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 Madrid points east-southeast

Madrid is at 40.4° N, 19.0° of latitude north of Makkah and 4,598 km (2,857 miles) from the Kaaba. On a flat Mercator map the straight line between them points 117°, east-southeast; on the globe, the shortest path, called a great circle, leaves Madrid at 104.0°, east-southeast. From Madrid, the great-circle bearing is about 13° to the left of the flat-map line. Across the Southern European cities on this site the Qibla runs from 104.0° in Madrid to 123.6° in Milan.

Nearby cities

• Barcelona, Spain110.6° ESE · 505 km away
• Marseille, France116.3° ESE · 816 km away
• Lyon, France118.6° ESE · 913 km away
• Paris, France119.2° ESE · 1,053 km away
• Milan, Italy123.6° ESE · 1,188 km away

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