Qibla direction in London, Ontario, Canada

How to face the Qibla in London, Ontario, Canada

Stand where you will pray and find north first. Then turn towards east and move a further 36.7° towards north: the result is the bearing of 53.3°. Because the angle sits far from the cardinal points, a rough guess such as “east” would be off by more than 30°, which is why a measured bearing matters in London, Ontario, Canada.

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 London, Ontario, Canada is a local mosque: its mihrab and prayer lines already point to the Qibla. See the mosques of London, Ontario, Canada. 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

This is a place where maps mislead badly: a straight line on a flat map from London, Ontario, Canada to Mecca points to 102.0° (east), a full 48.7° away from the true Qibla of 53.3° (north-east). The map line keeps one compass heading and is 860 km longer than the great-circle route. Because the Earth is a sphere, the shortest way to Mecca from London, Ontario, Canada first heads north-east, and that is the direction to face.

The angle on this page is the initial bearing of the great circle from 42.9834° N, 81.2330° W 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 London, Ontario, Canada to Mecca and Medina

Mecca is 10,661 km from London, Ontario, Canada as the crow flies, and Medina, the city of the Prophet ﷺ, is 10,384 km away. A direct flight would take roughly 13 h 03 min, although most pilgrims from London, Ontario, Canada connect through Jeddah or Medina airport.

Clocks in London, Ontario, Canada run 8 hours behind Mecca in winter and 7 hours behind Mecca in summer, because of daylight saving time. Prayer times, however, depend on the sun at your own location, so always use the prayer times of London, Ontario, Canada rather than those of Mecca.

Finding the Qibla with the sun in London, Ontario, Canada

From London, Ontario, Canada the sun never rises high in the Qibla direction of 53.3°, so you cannot simply face the sun. The opposite method works instead, as the right-hand column of the table shows.

On 340 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 March (31 days), for instance on 15 January 2027 at 16:29.

Twice a year the sun passes directly over the Kaaba, on 28 May 2027 and 16 July 2027. Both happen at night in London, Ontario, Canada (05:18 and 05:27 local time), so they cannot be used here. Instead, on 13 January 2027 at 16:29 and 28 November 2027 at 16:09 the sun is over the point opposite the Kaaba, and every vertical shadow in London, Ontario, Canada points straight to Mecca.

London, Ontario, Canada compared with other cities

Compared with Ottawa, 517 km away, the Qibla in London, Ontario, Canada is turned 3.9° further anticlockwise (53.3° against 57.2°), and Mecca is 516 km farther away. The nearest city with its own Qibla page, Kitchener (76 km), prays towards 53.8°, a difference of 0.5°.

Across the 46 cities in Canada on this site, the Qibla ranges from 16.5° in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada to 73.4° in St. John's, a spread of 56.9°. That is too large to use one national direction, so each city has its own bearing.

See all cities on the Qibla page for Canada.

Qibla in cities near London, Ontario, Canada

• Kitchener53.8° · 76 km
• Brantford54.0° · 80 km
• Cambridge, Ontario, Canada53.9° · 86 km
• Guelph54.0° · 101 km
• Hamilton, Ontario, Canada54.3° · 116 km
• Burlington54.3° · 122 km