Qibla direction in Bandırma

How to face the Qibla in Bandırma

Stand where you will pray and find north first. Then turn towards south and move a further 31.5° towards east: the result is the bearing of 148.5°. 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 Bandırma.

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 Bandırma is a local mosque: its mihrab and prayer lines already point to the Qibla. See the mosques of Bandırma. 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 Bandırma to Mecca points to 151.9° (south-east), 3.5° away from the correct 148.5°. That map line is a rhumb line: it keeps the same compass heading all the way, but it is 1 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 40.3522° N, 27.9767° 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 Bandırma to Mecca and Medina

Mecca is 2,384 km from Bandırma as the crow flies, and Medina, the city of the Prophet ﷺ, is 2,072 km away. A direct flight would take roughly 3 h 18 min, although most pilgrims from Bandırma connect through Jeddah or Medina airport.

Clocks in Bandırma 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 Bandırma rather than those of Mecca.

Finding the Qibla with the sun in Bandırma

On 365 days of 2027, the sun passes exactly through the Qibla direction of Bandırma 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 11:02 local time.

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

Bandırma compared with other cities

Compared with Ankara, 417 km away, the Qibla in Bandırma is turned 11.7° further anticlockwise (148.5° against 160.1°), and Mecca is 224 km farther away. The nearest city with its own Qibla page, Mustafakemalpaşa (51 km), prays towards 149.1°, a difference of 0.6°.

Across the 85 cities in Türkiye on this site, the Qibla ranges from 143.7° in Izmir to 192.2° in Iğdır, a spread of 48.6°. That is too large to use one national direction, so each city has its own bearing.

See all cities on the Qibla page for Türkiye.

Qibla in cities near Bandırma

• Mustafakemalpaşa149.1° · 51 km
• Balıkesir147.3° · 79 km
• Tekirdağ148.2° · 80 km
• Çorlu149.1° · 91 km
• Bursa150.8° · 94 km
• Esenyurt150.9° · 95 km