Qibla Direction in Memphis, Tennessee

How to face the Qibla in Memphis

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 50.0° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 48.0° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 1.9° 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 Memphis points northeast

Memphis sits at 35.1° N, 13.7° 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 97°, east. On the globe, the shortest route leaves Memphis at 48.0° and swings north over the Atlantic to about 53° N before descending to Arabia, which is why the Qibla from Memphis is northeast.

Nearby cities

• Nashville, TN50.2° NE · 196 mi away
• St. Louis, MO47.2° NE · 240 mi away
• Louisville, KY50.6° NE · 320 mi away
• Atlanta, GA52.3° NE · 337 mi away
• Kansas City, MO43.8° NE · 370 mi away

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