Qibla direction in Volzhsky

How to face the Qibla in Volzhsky

Stand where you will pray and find north first. Then turn towards south and move a further 10.0° towards west: the result is the bearing of 190.0°. A small error of a few degrees is forgiven by most scholars, but aiming simply at south would leave you about 10° 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

On a flat (Mercator) map, the straight line from Volzhsky to Mecca points to 188.3°, only 1.7° away from the true Qibla. Here the two methods practically agree, so a map gives a usable first idea, although the 190.0° bearing remains the exact one.

The angle on this page is the initial bearing of the great circle from 48.7858° N, 44.7797° 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 Volzhsky to Mecca and Medina

Mecca is 3,074 km from Volzhsky as the crow flies, and Medina, the city of the Prophet ﷺ, is 2,742 km away. A direct flight would take roughly 4 h 07 min, although most pilgrims from Volzhsky connect through Jeddah or Medina airport.

Clocks in Volzhsky run the same time as Mecca all year. Prayer times, however, depend on the sun at your own location, so always use the prayer times of Volzhsky rather than those of Mecca.

Finding the Qibla with the sun in Volzhsky

On 365 days of 2027, the sun passes exactly through the Qibla direction of Volzhsky while it is well above the horizon. At that moment, facing the sun means facing Mecca. The effect is most frequent in January (31 days); for example, on 1 January 2027 it happens at 12:46 local time.

The sun is never opposite the Qibla of Volzhsky 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 Volzhsky: at 12:18 and 12:27 local time, face the sun and you face the Qibla exactly, anywhere in the city.

Volzhsky compared with other cities

Compared with Moscow, 914 km away, the Qibla in Volzhsky is turned 13.6° further clockwise (190.0° against 176.4°), and Mecca is 747 km closer. The nearest city with its own Qibla page, Volgograd (22 km), prays towards 189.4°, a difference of 0.5°.

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 Volzhsky

• Volgograd189.4° · 22 km
• Kamyshin190.8° · 152 km
• Volgodonsk184.9° · 241 km
• Elista189.7° · 278 km
• Saratov191.4° · 318 km
• Shakhty180.8° · 358 km