The exact direction of the Kaaba from wherever you are, in degrees from true north.
Qibla: — from north
The dial shows the bearing with north up. With the live compass on, hold the phone flat and turn until the gold arrow points straight up.
The bearing shown is the initial great-circle direction to the Kaaba — the same standard used by published Qibla tables. From Faisalabad it computes to 259.5°, matching published values of 259.5–259.6° for the city. Small differences of a degree between sources come from slightly different city-centre coordinates.
By the initial bearing of the great-circle (shortest) path from your coordinates to the Kaaba in Makkah (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). This is the method used by IslamicFinder, Qibla compasses and mosque apps worldwide.
From most of Pakistan the Qibla is west-southwest: about 259.5° from Faisalabad, roughly 256° from Karachi and about 257° from Islamabad. Pick your city above to get its exact figure.
Phone compasses are affected by metal, cases and nearby electronics, and they point to magnetic north, which differs from true north by a few degrees depending on where you live. Use the degree figure with a real compass check outdoors, or calibrate your phone by waving it in a figure-eight.
Yes — the bearing depends entirely on where you stand. From London it is about 119° (southeast) and from New York about 58° (northeast). Re-check whenever you travel.
The page computes the initial bearing of the great circle — the shortest path over the Earth’s curved surface — from your coordinates to the Kaaba in Makkah (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E), and reports it in degrees clockwise from true north, together with the great-circle distance to Makkah. Pick a listed city, type coordinates, or share your location; on phones that support it, the on-screen compass dial rotates with the device so the Qibla needle can be lined up directly.
From Faisalabad the Qibla bearing is 259.5° — a little south of due west — and the distance to Makkah is about 3,483 km. From Karachi, further south and west, the bearing is 267.7°, almost due west, while from Lahore it is 260.4°: three cities in one country, three slightly different directions.
Because the bearing follows the shortest path over a round Earth, not a straight line on a flat map. From Pakistan that path heads west-south-west; from North America the shortest path to Makkah crosses the North Atlantic, so the Qibla there points north-east — a result that surprises many people the first time they see it.
True north. A magnetic compass — including the sensor in a phone — points to magnetic north, and the gap between the two, called declination, depends on where you are. It is small in Pakistan but large in some parts of the world, which is one reason a phone compass can sit a couple of degrees off the figure shown here.
Only if you tap “Use my location”. Choosing a city or typing coordinates works with no permission at all, and in every case the bearing is calculated on your device — your location is not sent anywhere.
Yes. The number is a standard compass bearing, so any compass or map app can use it: face north, turn clockwise by the number of degrees shown (259.5° in Faisalabad), and that is the Qibla. The rotating dial is a convenience, not a requirement.
It is calculated to a tenth of a degree from the coordinates used, so the figure itself is exact for the place entered. In practice the limit is the compass you align with — phone compasses are disturbed by metal, magnetic cases and nearby electronics, so step away from those for the final reading.
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