Qibla Direction in Valencia, Spain

How to face the Qibla in Valencia

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 104.3° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 105.8° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 1.5° 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 Valencia points east-southeast

Valencia is at 39.5° N, 18.0° of latitude north of Makkah and 4,297 km (2,670 miles) from the Kaaba. On a flat Mercator map the straight line between them points 118°, east-southeast; on the globe, the shortest path, called a great circle, leaves Valencia at 105.8°, east-southeast. From Valencia, the great-circle bearing is about 12° 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

• Madrid, Spain104.0° ESE · 303 km away
• Barcelona, Spain110.6° ESE · 303 km away
• Toulouse, France112.4° ESE · 484 km away
• Marseille, France116.3° ESE · 641 km away
• Lisbon, Portugal97.9° E · 760 km away

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