Qibla Direction in Sugar Land, Texas

How to face the Qibla in Sugar Land

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 43.5° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 45.3° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 1.9° 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 Sugar Land points northeast

Sugar Land sits at 29.6° N, 8.2° 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 Sugar Land at 45.3° and swings north over the Atlantic to about 52° N before descending to Arabia, which is why the Qibla from Sugar Land is northeast.

Nearby cities

• Houston, TX45.5° NE · 19 mi away
• Austin, TX43.5° NE · 134 mi away
• San Antonio, TX43.2° NE · 172 mi away
• Dallas, TX43.5° NE · 229 mi away
• Irving, TX43.4° NE · 234 mi away

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