Qibla Direction in Oslo, Norway

How to face the Qibla in Oslo

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 133.9° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 139.0° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 5.1° 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 Oslo points southeast

At 59.9° N, Oslo is 38.5° of latitude north of Makkah. A flat Mercator map stretches the high latitudes, and on it a straight line from Oslo to the Kaaba points 151°, south-southeast. The great circle, the shortest path over the globe, starts out at 139.0°, southeast, and that is the bearing this page gives: the great-circle bearing is about 12° to the left of the flat-map line. The Kaaba is 4,851 km (3,014 miles) from Oslo. Across the Northern European cities on this site the Qibla runs from 138.2° in Copenhagen to 148.2° in Stockholm.

Nearby cities

• Stockholm, Sweden148.2° SSE · 416 km away
• Copenhagen, Denmark138.2° SE · 483 km away
• Hamburg, Germany133.0° SE · 709 km away
• Berlin, Germany136.7° SE · 838 km away
• Amsterdam, Netherlands125.6° SE · 913 km away

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