Qibla direction in Tyumen

How to face the Qibla in Tyumen

Stand where you will pray and find north first. Then turn towards south and move a further 38.6° towards west: the result is the bearing of 218.6°. Because the angle sits far from the cardinal points, a rough guess such as “south” would be off by more than 30°, which is why a measured bearing matters in Tyumen.

The scholars distinguish two cases: the one who sees the Kaaba aims at the building itself, while the one who cannot see it, as anywhere in Tyumen, aims at its direction as well as he reasonably can. Comparing with the mihrab of a local mosque is a quick way to confirm the result. If you travel or move house, check the angle again, since it changes from place to place.

Why a flat map shows a different direction

A straight line drawn on a flat (Mercator) map from Tyumen to Mecca points to 208.1° (south-west), 10.4° away from the correct 218.6°. That map line is a rhumb line: it keeps the same compass heading all the way, but it is 16 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 value of 218.6° is the direction in which the shortest route from 57.1522° N, 65.5272° E sets off towards the Kaaba at 21.4225° N, 39.8262° E. Every accurate Qibla calculator, and the plans of well-oriented mosques, arrive at the same angle for this point.

Distance from Tyumen to Mecca and Medina

Mecca is 4,489 km from Tyumen as the crow flies, and Medina, the city of the Prophet ﷺ, is 4,184 km away. A direct flight would take roughly 5 h 47 min, although most pilgrims from Tyumen connect through Jeddah or Medina airport.

Clocks in Tyumen 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 Tyumen rather than those of Mecca.

Finding the Qibla with the sun in Tyumen

On 323 days of 2027, the sun passes exactly through the Qibla direction of Tyumen 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 15 January 2027 it happens at 15:34 local time.

The sun is never opposite the Qibla of Tyumen 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 Tyumen: at 14:18 and 14:27 local time, face the sun and you face the Qibla exactly, anywhere in the city.

Tyumen compared with other cities

Compared with Moscow, 1,710 km away, the Qibla in Tyumen is turned 42.2° further clockwise (218.6° against 176.4°), and Mecca is 668 km farther away. The nearest city with its own Qibla page, Kurgan (190 km), prays towards 219.6°, a difference of 1.0°.

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 Tyumen

• Kurgan219.6° · 190 km
• Tobolsk221.4° · 200 km
• Kamensk-Uralsky214.2° · 234 km
• Yekaterinburg212.0° · 299 km
• Chelyabinsk214.3° · 337 km
• Pervouralsk211.0° · 339 km