Qibla Direction in Pickering, Ontario

How to face the Qibla in Pickering

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 65.1° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 54.8° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 10.3° 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 Pickering points northeast

Pickering is at 43.8° N, well north of Makkah (21.4° N), yet a straight line on a Mercator map still points 103°, east-southeast, and that is the direction many people picture. The shortest path over the globe starts out at 54.8° instead and rises to about 54° N before it curves down toward Arabia, so from Pickering the Qibla is northeast.

Nearby cities

• Ajax, ON54.8° NE · 3 mi away
• Scarborough, ON54.7° NE · 8 mi away
• Markham, ON54.6° NE · 13 mi away
• North York, ON54.6° NE · 17 mi away
• Richmond Hill, ON54.5° NE · 18 mi away

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