Qibla Direction in San Antonio, Texas

How to face the Qibla in San Antonio

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 39.7° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 43.2° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 3.5° 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 San Antonio points northeast

San Antonio sits at 29.4° N, 8.0° of latitude north of Makkah (21.4° N), so many people picture the Qibla as roughly east, and on a Mercator map the straight line does point 94°, east. On the globe, the shortest route leaves San Antonio at 43.2° and swings north over the Atlantic to about 53° N before descending to Arabia, which is why the Qibla from San Antonio is northeast.

Nearby cities

• Austin, TX43.5° NE · 74 mi away
• Sugar Land, TX45.3° NE · 172 mi away
• Houston, TX45.5° NE · 189 mi away
• Irving, TX43.4° NE · 251 mi away
• Dallas, TX43.5° NE · 252 mi away

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