Qibla Direction in Milan, Italy

How to face the Qibla in Milan

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 119.9° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 123.6° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 3.7° 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 Milan points east-southeast

Milan is at 45.5° N, 24.0° of latitude north of Makkah and 3,859 km (2,398 miles) from the Kaaba. On a flat Mercator map the straight line between them points 134°, southeast; on the globe, the shortest path, called a great circle, leaves Milan at 123.6°, east-southeast. From Milan, the great-circle bearing is about 10° 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

• Zurich, Switzerland125.0° SE · 218 km away
• Lyon, France118.6° ESE · 340 km away
• Munich, Germany129.8° SE · 348 km away
• Marseille, France116.3° ESE · 388 km away
• Frankfurt, Germany128.1° SE · 518 km away

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