Qibla Finder - Accurate Qibla Direction Online

A Qibla finder is a compass with one job. It shows you the exact direction of the Qibla. The Qibla is the Kaaba in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Muslims face it during the five daily prayers. So the right direction matters at home, in a hotel, at work, or anywhere with no mosque nearby.

This tool works like a normal compass, but it is smarter. It reads your phone's GPS position. Then it finds the shortest path over the curved Earth to the Kaaba (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). The Earth is round, so the shortest path is a curve, not a straight line on a flat map. Over long distances a flat map direction can be wrong by 30 degrees or more.

It also fixes magnetic declination. That is the gap between magnetic north, which your phone sensor feels, and true north, which the bearing is measured from. Your phone does this math with the World Magnetic Model. So the dial points to true north.

It takes less than a minute. You install nothing.

1. Open this page on your phone and tap “Find Qibla Direction”.
2. Allow the page to use your location when your phone asks.
3. On iPhone, allow motion sensor access too. It asks right after location.
4. Hold your phone flat in your hand and turn slowly.
5. Stop when the gold Kaaba marker reaches the top of the dial. The page will tell you that you are aligned. That is your Qibla.
6. Tip: look at a nearby landmark, like a door edge or a corner of the room. Then you can face the right way again later without the phone.

Any phone with a compass sensor works. That means almost all iPhones and Android phones, even old and cheap ones. It runs in Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, Samsung Internet, and Brave. There is nothing to download and no account to create.

On a desktop computer there is no compass sensor, so the dial will not spin. You still get your exact Qibla bearing in degrees and your distance to Makkah. Use the bearing with any normal compass, or open this page on your phone for the live dial.

Yes. Open this page once with internet so it loads. After that it keeps working without internet. Your GPS talks straight to satellites. Your compass sensor reads the Earth's magnetic field. Neither needs the web.

If GPS drops for a moment indoors, your phone holds its last known spot for a few minutes. That is enough for one prayer. In a hotel, take one reading outside when you arrive and mark a landmark in your room.

Yes, within the limits of your phone's hardware. The bearing uses the same round-earth math as airplane navigation. Checks against known values match to better than half a degree. What changes is your phone's sensor, the tiny part that feels magnetic north.

• Calibrate first. Wave the phone in a figure-8 a few times before you trust the needle.
• Stay away from interference. Laptops, speakers, phone cases with magnets, and steel buildings can shift the reading by several degrees.
• Give GPS a moment. Wait a few seconds outside, or near a window, until your position settles.
• Double check. Compare your reading with your city's angle in the table below. A match within 2 or 3 degrees means the reading is clean.

No online tool replaces a careful check before prayer. But for daily use this is as accurate as the compass apps in the app stores, and you install nothing. Islamic teaching is to face the Qibla as best as you can.

Almost every problem is a browser permission, not a broken tool. Find your browser below.

Reference bearings from world cities to the Kaaba. They use the same round-earth formula as the live tool. Bearings are measured clockwise from true north, in degrees. Distances are in kilometres. Values are approximate. Your live reading above is exact for your spot.