Qibla direction in Khuzdar

How to face the Qibla in Khuzdar

Stand where you will pray and find north first. Then turn towards west and move a further 8.8° towards south: the result is the bearing of 261.2°. A small error of a few degrees is forgiven by most scholars, but aiming simply at west would leave you about 9° 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. If a mosque is nearby, its mihrab and prayer lines are the easiest reference, since they were set when the building was laid out. 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 Khuzdar to Mecca points to 255.3° (west), 5.9° away from the correct 261.2°. That map line is a rhumb line: it keeps the same compass heading all the way, but it is 5 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 27.8119° N, 66.6110° 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 Khuzdar to Mecca and Medina

Mecca is 2,793 km from Khuzdar as the crow flies, and Medina, the city of the Prophet ﷺ, is 2,715 km away. A direct flight would take roughly 3 h 47 min, although most pilgrims from Khuzdar connect through Jeddah or Medina airport.

Clocks in Khuzdar run 2 hours ahead of Mecca all year. Prayer times, however, depend on the sun at your own location, so always use the prayer times of Khuzdar rather than those of Mecca.

Finding the Qibla with the sun in Khuzdar

On 216 days of 2027, the sun passes exactly through the Qibla direction of Khuzdar 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 March 2027 it happens at 17:45 local time.

On 134 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 1 May 2027 at 07:13.

Twice a year the sun passes directly over the Kaaba, on 28 May 2027 and 16 July 2027. Both moments are in daylight in Khuzdar: at 14:18 and 14:27 local time, face the sun and you face the Qibla exactly, anywhere in the city.

Khuzdar compared with other cities

Compared with Islamabad, 899 km away, the Qibla in Khuzdar is turned 5.4° further clockwise (261.2° against 255.8°), and Mecca is 735 km closer. The nearest city with its own Qibla page, Shahdad Kot (127 km), prays towards 262.1°, a difference of 0.9°.

Across the 125 cities in Pakistan on this site, the Qibla ranges from 253.6° in Mingora to 269.0° in Badin, a spread of 15.5°. That is too large to use one national direction, so each city has its own bearing.

See all cities on the Qibla page for Pakistan.

Qibla in cities near Khuzdar

• Shahdad Kot262.1° · 127 km
• Garhi Khairo261.7° · 137 km
• Dokri263.2° · 154 km
• Larkana262.9° · 160 km
• Dadu264.3° · 167 km
• Arif Wala264.2° · 168 km