Qibla Direction in Salt Lake City, Utah

How to face the Qibla in Salt Lake City

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 17.8° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 28.5° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 10.7° 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 Salt Lake City points north-northeast

From Salt Lake City the Qibla is north-northeast, closer to north than anywhere on the East Coast. A straight line on a Mercator map points 99°, east, but the great circle, the shortest path over the globe, leaves Salt Lake City at 28.5° and climbs to about 69° N, far up toward Greenland, before it curves down toward Arabia. The difference between the two lines is about 70°.

Nearby cities

• Las Vegas, NV26.4° NNE · 363 mi away
• Denver, CO35.0° NE · 371 mi away
• Albuquerque, NM34.6° NE · 485 mi away
• Phoenix, AZ30.1° NNE · 505 mi away
• Fresno, CA21.7° NNE · 508 mi away

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