Qibla Direction in Perth, Western Australia

How to face the Qibla in Perth

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 296.9° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 295.4° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 1.5° 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 Perth points west-northwest

Perth is in the Southern Hemisphere at 32.0° S, and Makkah is in the Northern Hemisphere at 21.4° N, so the path to the Kaaba crosses the equator on its way. Measured clockwise from true north, the Qibla from Perth is 295.4°, west-northwest. On a flat Mercator map a straight line points 306°, northwest; the great circle, the shortest route over the globe, is the one the bearing follows, and from Perth the great-circle bearing is about 11° to the left of the flat-map line. The Kaaba is 10,024 km (6,229 miles) away. Across Australia and New Zealand the Qibla runs from 256.4° in Wellington to 295.4° in Perth.

Nearby cities

• Adelaide, Australia283.3° WNW · 2,131 km away
• Melbourne, Australia278.8° W · 2,722 km away
• Canberra, Australia277.8° W · 3,088 km away
• Sydney, Australia277.5° W · 3,291 km away
• Brisbane, Australia280.3° W · 3,606 km away

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