Qibla Direction in Windsor, Ontario

How to face the Qibla in Windsor

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 59.6° on the dial. That is the magnetic bearing; reading 52.0° off a magnetic compass would leave you about 7.5° 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 Windsor points northeast

Windsor is at 42.3° N, well north of Makkah (21.4° N), yet a straight line on a Mercator map still points 101°, east-southeast, and that is the direction many people picture. The shortest path over the globe starts out at 52.0° instead and rises to about 54° N before it curves down toward Arabia, so from Windsor the Qibla is northeast.

Nearby cities

• Detroit, MI52.0° NE · 1 mi away
• Hamtramck, MI52.0° NE · 5 mi away
• Dearborn, MI51.9° NE · 7 mi away
• Cleveland, OH53.1° NE · 89 mi away
• Columbus, OH52.3° NE · 163 mi away

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