Qibla Direction in Nashville, Tennessee

How to face the Qibla in Nashville

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 54.5° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 50.2° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 4.2° 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 Nashville points northeast

Nashville sits at 36.2° N, 14.7° 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 98°, east. On the globe, the shortest route leaves Nashville at 50.2° and swings north over the Atlantic to about 52° N before descending to Arabia, which is why the Qibla from Nashville is northeast.

Nearby cities

• Atlanta, GA52.3° NE · 215 mi away
• Cincinnati, OH51.4° NE · 238 mi away
• Indianapolis, IN50.1° NE · 251 mi away
• St. Louis, MO47.2° NE · 253 mi away
• Columbus, OH52.3° NE · 333 mi away

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