Qibla Finder

The Qibla is the direction Muslims face when offering salah (the prayer). It is the direction of the Kaaba, the cubic structure at the centre of Al-Masjid Al-Haram (the Sacred Mosque) in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Wherever a Muslim is on earth, the Qibla is the great-circle direction from their location to the Kaaba.

Allah commanded the believers to face Al-Masjid Al-Haram in Surah Al-Baqarah (2:144). The Kaaba was built by the Prophet Ibrahim and his son Isma'il ‘alayhima as-salam as the first house of worship dedicated to the worship of one God. Facing it unifies Muslims around the world in a single direction during prayer.

No. The earliest Muslims in Makkah, and the Muslims in Madinah for about 16–17 months after the Hijrah, prayed toward Bayt al-Maqdis (Jerusalem). The change of Qibla to the Kaaba came with the revelation of Surah Al-Baqarah, verses 142–144, around the month of Rajab in the second year of the Hijrah.

It asks your browser for your location, then computes the great-circle initial bearing from your coordinates to the Kaaba (21.4225°N, 39.8262°E). The result is given in degrees clockwise from True North. By default, you orient your phone with the top edge pointing North and the arrow indicates the Qibla. If you enable the live compass, the arrow rotates as you turn your phone, always pointing at the Kaaba.

Once your location has been detected, tap "Enable live compass". On iPhone and iPad, your browser will ask permission to use motion and orientation data — grant it to activate the compass. The arrow then rotates as you turn your phone, always pointing toward the Kaaba relative to your phone's orientation. Hold your phone flat (face up) for best results. If the arrow seems wrong or jittery, move your phone in a figure-8 motion for a few seconds to recalibrate the magnetometer.

Your phone's magnetometer reports magnetic north. The bearing in this tool is calculated from True North. The angle between the two — the magnetic declination — varies by location: small in much of the Middle East and the UK, but up to ~15° in North America. The live compass on this page corrects for declination on both platforms. iOS Safari corrects internally; on Android, this tool computes the correction locally from the bundled World Magnetic Model 2025 (WMM-2025), so it works offline and without depending on any external service. Your phone's standalone compass app may not apply this correction unless you set it to "True North" mode.

Very accurate for this purpose. Even an error of several kilometres in your location changes the Qibla bearing by only a fraction of a degree at typical distances from Makkah. So long as your browser knows roughly which city you are in, the bearing it produces is reliable for prayer.

Imam At-Tirmidhi narrates that the Prophet ﷺ said, «مَا بَيْنَ الْمَشْرِقِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ قِبْلَةٌ» — "What is between the East and the West is Qibla" (At-Tirmidhi 342) — guidance for those who cannot precisely determine the direction. The scholars take this to mean that for someone unable to verify the exact direction, facing the broad direction of the Qibla is acceptable, and the prayer is valid by the will of Allah.

No. The direction depends on where you are. From Europe and North America the Qibla is generally to the east or southeast. From Eastern Africa and South-East Asia it is to the north-west. From Australia, north-westwards. From northern Russia or Scandinavia, almost due south. The bearings table on this page shows the Qibla from a sample of major cities.

When you open the page, your browser asks your permission to use your location. If you grant it, the bearing is computed locally on your device — your coordinates are not sent to any server. If you deny it, you’ll be prompted to enable location in your browser settings, since the Qibla depends on knowing where you are.