Qibla Direction in Santa Clara, California

How to face the Qibla in Santa Clara

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 6.7° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 19.4° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 12.7° 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 Santa Clara points north-northeast

From Santa Clara the Qibla is north-northeast, closer to north than anywhere on the East Coast. A straight line on a Mercator map points 96°, east, but the great circle, the shortest path over the globe, leaves Santa Clara at 19.4° and climbs to about 75° N, far up toward Greenland, before it curves down toward Arabia. The difference between the two lines is about 77°.

Nearby cities

• San Jose, CA19.5° NNE · 4 mi away
• Fremont, CA19.3° NNE · 14 mi away
• San Francisco, CA18.8° NNE · 39 mi away
• Sacramento, CA19.6° NNE · 88 mi away
• Fresno, CA21.7° NNE · 127 mi away

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