Qibla direction in Omsk

How to face the Qibla in Omsk

Stand where you will pray and find north first. Then turn towards west and move a further 39.6° towards south: the result is the bearing of 230.4°. Because the angle sits far from the cardinal points, a rough guess such as “west” would be off by more than 30°, which is why a measured bearing matters in Omsk.

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 Omsk is a local mosque: its mihrab and prayer lines already point to the Qibla. See the mosques of Omsk. 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 Omsk to Mecca points to 217.2° (south-west), 13.2° away from the correct 230.4°. That map line is a rhumb line: it keeps the same compass heading all the way, but it is 27 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 54.9924° N, 73.3686° 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 Omsk to Mecca and Medina

Mecca is 4,659 km from Omsk as the crow flies, and Medina, the city of the Prophet ﷺ, is 4,375 km away. A direct flight would take roughly 5 h 59 min, although most pilgrims from Omsk connect through Jeddah or Medina airport.

Clocks in Omsk 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 Omsk rather than those of Mecca.

Finding the Qibla with the sun in Omsk

On 290 days of 2027, the sun passes exactly through the Qibla direction of Omsk while it is well above the horizon. At that moment, facing the sun means facing Mecca. The effect is most frequent in March (31 days); for example, on 1 February 2027 it happens at 16:54 local time.

The sun is never opposite the Qibla of Omsk during daylight, so the shadow method does not apply here; the left-hand column is the one to use.

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

Omsk compared with other cities

Compared with Moscow, 2,235 km away, the Qibla in Omsk is turned 54.0° further clockwise (230.4° against 176.4°), and Mecca is 838 km farther away. The nearest city with its own Qibla page, Tobolsk (474 km), prays towards 221.4°, a difference of 9.0°.

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 Omsk

• Tobolsk221.4° · 474 km
• Kurgan219.6° · 511 km
• Tyumen218.6° · 542 km
• Novosibirsk241.4° · 609 km
• Rubtsovsk242.6° · 649 km
• Nefteyugansk224.7° · 681 km