Qibla Direction in Reading, England

How to face the Qibla in Reading

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 118.0° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 1.0° 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 Reading points east-southeast

From Reading the Qibla is 118.0° from true north, east-southeast. Reading lies at 51.5° N, 30.0° of latitude north of Makkah, and on a flat Mercator map a straight line to the Kaaba points 133°, southeast. The bearing on this page follows the great circle instead: the shortest path between two points on the curved surface of the earth. From Reading, the great-circle bearing is about 15° to the left of the flat-map line. Across the UK and Ireland the Qibla runs from 110.6° in Cork to 120.2° in Dundee, so use the bearing for your own city rather than one taken elsewhere.

Nearby cities

• High Wycombe, UK118.4° ESE · 16 mi away
• Slough, UK118.5° ESE · 17 mi away
• Watford, UK118.8° ESE · 29 mi away
• London, UK119.0° ESE · 37 mi away
• Luton, UK119.0° ESE · 38 mi away

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