Qibla Direction in Paris, France

How to face the Qibla in Paris

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 117.1° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 119.2° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 2.1° 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 Paris points east-southeast

Paris is 4,496 km (2,794 miles) from the Kaaba, and measured clockwise from true north the Qibla here is 119.2°, east-southeast. A straight line on a flat Mercator map would point 132°, southeast. That map stretches distances more the further you are from the equator, so the line that looks straight on it is not the shortest route. The shortest route over the globe is the great circle, and its starting direction from Paris is the 119.2° bearing; the great-circle bearing is about 13° to the left of the flat-map line. Across the Western European cities on this site the Qibla runs from 116.3° in Marseille to 136.7° in Vienna.

Nearby cities

• Brussels, Belgium123.5° ESE · 264 km away
• Rotterdam, Netherlands124.7° SE · 373 km away
• Lyon, France118.6° ESE · 391 km away
• Cologne, Germany126.7° SE · 403 km away
• Amsterdam, Netherlands125.6° SE · 430 km away

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