Qibla direction in Iskandar Puteri

How to face the Qibla in Iskandar Puteri

Stand where you will pray and find north first. Then turn towards west and move a further 23.0° towards north: the result is the bearing of 293.0°. A small error of a few degrees is forgiven by most scholars, but aiming simply at west would leave you about 23° off.

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 Iskandar Puteri is a local mosque: its mihrab and prayer lines already point to the Qibla. See the mosques of Iskandar Puteri. 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 Iskandar Puteri to Mecca points to 287.9° (west), 5.2° away from the correct 293.0°. That map line is a rhumb line: it keeps the same compass heading all the way, but it is 18 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 1.3932° N, 103.6232° 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 Iskandar Puteri to Mecca and Medina

Mecca is 7,247 km from Iskandar Puteri as the crow flies, and Medina, the city of the Prophet ﷺ, is 7,325 km away. A direct flight would take roughly 9 h 02 min, although most pilgrims from Iskandar Puteri connect through Jeddah or Medina airport.

Clocks in Iskandar Puteri run 5 hours ahead of Mecca all year. Prayer times, however, depend on the sun at your own location, so always use the prayer times of Iskandar Puteri rather than those of Mecca.

Finding the Qibla with the sun in Iskandar Puteri

On 157 days of 2027, the sun passes exactly through the Qibla direction of Iskandar Puteri 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 1 April 2027 it happens at 13:39 local time.

On 163 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 October (31 days), for instance on 15 January 2027 at 08:39.

Twice a year the sun passes directly over the Kaaba, on 28 May 2027 and 16 July 2027. Both moments are in daylight in Iskandar Puteri: at 17:18 and 17:27 local time, face the sun and you face the Qibla exactly, anywhere in the city.

Iskandar Puteri compared with other cities

The Qibla here is practically the same as in Kuala Lumpur (292.5°), and Mecca is 274 km farther away. The nearest city with its own Qibla page, Johor Bahru (17 km), prays towards 293.0°, a difference of 0.1°.

Among the 40 cities in Malaysia on this site, Iskandar Puteri has the largest Qibla bearing; the smallest is 290.6° in Kota Kinabalu. Across the country the direction varies by 2.4°.

See all cities on the Qibla page for Malaysia.

Qibla in cities near Iskandar Puteri

• Johor Bahru293.0° · 17 km
• Pasir Gudang293.0° · 32 km
• Kluang292.8° · 79 km
• Batu Pahat292.9° · 92 km
• Muar town292.9° · 138 km
• Malacca292.9° · 178 km