Qibla direction in Tangail

How to face the Qibla in Tangail

Stand where you will pray and find north first. Then turn towards west and move a further 7.0° towards north: the result is the bearing of 277.0°. The direction is close to due west, which makes it easy to remember.

Scholars agree that someone who can see the Kaaba must face it exactly, while someone far away faces its direction (jihat al-Ka‘bah) as precisely as reasonably possible. The simplest check in Tangail is a local mosque: its mihrab and prayer lines already point to the Qibla. See the mosques of Tangail. At home, mark the direction once with tape or a small arrow so the whole family prays the same way.

Why a flat map shows a different direction

A straight line drawn on a flat (Mercator) map from Tangail to Mecca points to 266.5° (west), 10.5° away from the correct 277.0°. That map line is a rhumb line: it keeps the same compass heading all the way, but it is 26 km longer than the true shortest route. The Qibla follows the great circle, the shortest path on the curved Earth, which is why the bearing differs.

The angle on this page is the initial bearing of the great circle from 24.2498° N, 89.9166° E to the Kaaba (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). It is the method used by mosque architects and by every serious Qibla calculator, and it gives one exact answer for each point on Earth.

Distance from Tangail to Mecca and Medina

Mecca is 5,116 km from Tangail as the crow flies, and Medina, the city of the Prophet ﷺ, is 5,066 km away. A direct flight would take roughly 6 h 31 min, although most pilgrims from Tangail connect through Jeddah or Medina airport.

Clocks in Tangail run 3 hours ahead of Mecca all year. Prayer times, however, depend on the sun at your own location, so always use the prayer times of Tangail rather than those of Mecca.

Finding the Qibla with the sun in Tangail

On 146 days of 2027, the sun passes exactly through the Qibla direction of Tangail while it is well above the horizon. At that moment, facing the sun means facing Mecca. The effect is most frequent in May (31 days); for example, on 15 April 2027 it happens at 17:41 local time.

On 212 days the sun stands exactly opposite the Qibla: then the shadow of any vertical object, a pole, a door frame or a plumb line, points straight towards Mecca. This is most frequent in May (31 days), for instance on 15 March 2027 at 06:56.

Twice a year the sun passes directly over the Kaaba, on 28 May 2027 and 16 July 2027. Both moments are in daylight in Tangail: at 15:18 and 15:27 local time, face the sun and you face the Qibla exactly, anywhere in the city.

Tangail compared with other cities

Compared with Dhaka, 78 km away, the Qibla in Tangail is turned 0.7° further anticlockwise (277.0° against 277.7°), and Mecca is 57 km closer. The nearest city with its own Qibla page, Nāgarpur (22 km), prays towards 277.2°, a difference of 0.2°.

Across the 44 cities in Bangladesh on this site, the Qibla ranges from 274.8° in Thakurgaon to 280.1° in Cox’s Bāzār, a spread of 5.4°. That is too large to use one national direction, so each city has its own bearing.

See all cities on the Qibla page for Bangladesh.

Qibla in cities near Tangail

• Nāgarpur277.2° · 22 km
• Sirajganj276.7° · 31 km
• Shāhzādpur277.0° · 33 km
• Kaliakair277.3° · 37 km
• Savar Upazila277.5° · 56 km
• Gazipur277.4° · 58 km