Qibla direction in Komsomolsk-on-Amur

How to face the Qibla in Komsomolsk-on-Amur

Stand where you will pray and find north first. Then turn towards west and move a further 19.2° towards north: the result is the bearing of 289.2°. A small error of a few degrees is forgiven by most scholars, but aiming simply at west would leave you about 19° 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

This is a place where maps mislead badly: a straight line on a flat map from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to Mecca points to 249.2° (west), a full 40.0° away from the true Qibla of 289.2° (west). The map line keeps one compass heading and is 468 km longer than the great-circle route. Because the Earth is a sphere, the shortest way to Mecca from Komsomolsk-on-Amur first heads west, and that is the direction to face.

The angle on this page is the initial bearing of the great circle from 50.5503° N, 137.0100° 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 Komsomolsk-on-Amur to Mecca and Medina

Mecca is 8,672 km from Komsomolsk-on-Amur as the crow flies, and Medina, the city of the Prophet ﷺ, is 8,428 km away. A direct flight would take roughly 10 h 42 min, although most pilgrims from Komsomolsk-on-Amur connect through Jeddah or Medina airport.

Clocks in Komsomolsk-on-Amur run 7 hours ahead of Mecca all year. Prayer times, however, depend on the sun at your own location, so always use the prayer times of Komsomolsk-on-Amur rather than those of Mecca.

Finding the Qibla with the sun in Komsomolsk-on-Amur

On 102 days of 2027, the sun passes exactly through the Qibla direction of Komsomolsk-on-Amur while it is well above the horizon. At that moment, facing the sun means facing Mecca. The effect is most frequent in July (31 days); for example, on 15 May 2027 it happens at 19:26 local time.

On 233 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 1 March 2027 at 08:18.

Twice a year the sun passes directly over the Kaaba, on 28 May 2027 and 16 July 2027. Both moments are in daylight in Komsomolsk-on-Amur: at 19:18 and 19:27 local time, face the sun and you face the Qibla exactly, anywhere in the city.

Komsomolsk-on-Amur compared with other cities

Compared with Moscow, 6,066 km away, the Qibla in Komsomolsk-on-Amur is turned 112.9° further clockwise (289.2° against 176.4°), and Mecca is 4,851 km farther away. The nearest city with its own Qibla page, Khabarovsk (270 km), prays towards 288.3°, a difference of 0.9°.

Across the 158 cities in Russia on this site, the Qibla ranges from 148.7° in Kaliningrad to 305.3° in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, a spread of 156.6°. That is too large to use one national direction, so each city has its own bearing.

See all cities on the Qibla page for Russia.

Qibla in cities near Komsomolsk-on-Amur

• Khabarovsk288.3° · 270 km
• Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk293.9° · 579 km
• Blagoveshchensk282.4° · 672 km
• Ussuriysk287.2° · 841 km
• Artyom287.4° · 879 km
• Nakhodka288.0° · 912 km