Find your Qibla bearing to the Kaaba in Makkah, in degrees clockwise from true north, and your distance from Makkah. On your phone, live Qibla compass mode turns the dial with you.
1 · Pick your city or use your location · 2 · Hold your phone flat and turn slowly · 3 · Turn until the red arrow points to the 🕋 — that is your Qibla.
Bearing in degrees clockwise from true north, and great-circle distance to Makkah. Pick your city above to load it into the calculator.
| City | Qibla bearing | Distance to Makkah |
|---|---|---|
| Karachi, Pakistan | 267.7° | 2,800 km |
| Lahore, Pakistan | 260.4° | 3,598 km |
| Islamabad, Pakistan | 255.9° | 3,528 km |
| London, UK | 119.0° | 4,794 km |
| New York, USA | 58.5° | 10,306 km |
| Toronto, Canada | 54.6° | 10,496 km |
| Paris, France | 119.2° | 4,496 km |
| Dubai, UAE | 258.2° | 1,631 km |
| Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 292.5° | 6,974 km |
| Los Angeles, USA | 23.9° | 13,424 km |
| Sydney, Australia | 277.5° | 13,236 km |
| Jakarta, Indonesia | 295.2° | 7,920 km |
The bearing is the great-circle (shortest-path) bearing from your coordinates to the Kaaba (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E), calculated with standard spherical trigonometry. The distance is the great-circle distance in kilometres. This method was checked against known Qibla angles: Karachi 267.7°, Lahore 260.4°, London 119.0°, New York 58.5°, Jakarta 295.2°.
The Qibla is the direction Muslims face when praying, towards the Kaaba in Makkah, Saudi Arabia (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). This calculator gives that direction as a bearing in degrees clockwise from true north, using the great-circle route — the shortest path over the Earth's surface.
Phone compasses point to magnetic north, while Qibla bearings are measured from true north. The difference, called magnetic declination, varies by location — it is small in Pakistan and the UK, but over 10° in parts of North America. That is why this page gives you the true-north bearing to use with a true-north reference, rather than relying on a phone compass alone.
Find true north first — with a compass app that shows true north, the sun at noon, or a known landmark — then turn the given number of degrees clockwise from north. For example, a bearing of 268° means almost due west, slightly south of west.
Yes, for almost all scholars and prayer timetables, the Qibla is the great-circle (shortest) direction to Makkah. A flat-map straight line can look very different, especially from the Americas, and is not used.
The calculator also shows the great-circle distance in kilometres, calculated from your coordinates to the Kaaba. It is the shortest surface distance, not a flight distance.
No. The Qibla depends on where you are. From Pakistan it is roughly west (Karachi 267.7°), from London it is south-east (119°), and from New York it is north-east (58.5°). That is why a bearing for your own city matters, rather than a general rule like “face east”.
Yes. After finding your Qibla bearing, tap Start live compass on your phone. The dial turns as you turn, the red arrow stays pointing toward Makkah, and the page tells you when you are facing Qibla. It needs your phone's compass sensor and, on iPhone, permission for motion sensors. It does not work on a laptop or desktop — there, use the manual bearing above.