Qibla Direction · Bangladesh
Qibla from Dhaka
The bearing to the Kaaba from Dhaka — and why your phone compass alone isn’t enough.
Approximate. The bearing below is a true-north great-circle calculation, rounded for compass use. Your phone compass reads magnetic north, which differs from true north by several degrees depending on where you are. For an exact, live direction, use a GPS-based qibla app.
Qibla from true north · approximate
278°
Roughly west, from Dhaka
Why it can feel like the wrong direction
The shortest path on a sphere is a great circle, not a straight line on a flat map. Depending on where Dhaka sits relative to Mecca, that path can curve surprising ways — the qibla from North America points northeast, while from much of Asia it points west. Trust the bearing above over intuition from a flat map.
Using a phone compass
- Calibrate the compass first (figure-8 motion) — an uncalibrated compass can be off by tens of degrees.
- Move away from metal, electronics, and reinforced concrete, all of which distort the reading indoors.
- A GPS-based qibla app is more reliable than a raw compass, because it computes the true direction from your coordinates rather than reading the local magnetic field.
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