Qibla Direction in Rome, Italy

How to face the Qibla in Rome

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 119.2° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 123.3° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 4.1° 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 Rome points east-southeast

Rome is at 41.9° N, 20.5° of latitude north of Makkah and 3,419 km (2,124 miles) from the Kaaba. On a flat Mercator map the straight line between them points 132°, southeast; on the globe, the shortest path, called a great circle, leaves Rome at 123.3°, east-southeast. From Rome, the great-circle bearing is about 8° to the left of the flat-map line. Across the Southern European cities on this site the Qibla runs from 97.9° in Lisbon to 123.6° in Milan.

Nearby cities

• Nice, France119.0° ESE · 472 km away
• Milan, Italy123.6° ESE · 477 km away
• Turin, Italy121.2° ESE · 524 km away
• Marseille, France116.3° ESE · 603 km away
• Zurich, Switzerland125.0° SE · 684 km away

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