Qibla direction in Phổ Yên

How to face the Qibla in Phổ Yên

Stand where you will pray and find north first. Then turn towards west and move a further 13.4° towards north: the result is the bearing of 283.4°. A small error of a few degrees is forgiven by most scholars, but aiming simply at west would leave you about 13° 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

A straight line drawn on a flat (Mercator) map from Phổ Yên to Mecca points to 270.0° (west), 13.4° away from the correct 283.4°. That map line is a rhumb line: it keeps the same compass heading all the way, but it is 57 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 21.4198° N, 105.8899° 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 Phổ Yên to Mecca and Medina

Mecca is 6,782 km from Phổ Yên as the crow flies, and Medina, the city of the Prophet ﷺ, is 6,729 km away. A direct flight would take roughly 8 h 29 min, although most pilgrims from Phổ Yên connect through Jeddah or Medina airport.

Clocks in Phổ Yên run 4 hours ahead of Mecca all year. Prayer times, however, depend on the sun at your own location, so always use the prayer times of Phổ Yên rather than those of Mecca.

Finding the Qibla with the sun in Phổ Yên

On 112 days of 2027, the sun passes exactly through the Qibla direction of Phổ Yên while it is well above the horizon. At that moment, facing the sun means facing Mecca. The effect is most frequent in May (31 days); for example, on 1 May 2027 it happens at 17:45 local time.

On 195 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 07:13.

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

Phổ Yên compared with other cities

The Qibla here is practically the same as in Hanoi (283.6°), and Mecca is 5 km closer. The nearest city with its own Qibla page, Thai Nguyen (20 km), prays towards 283.3°, a difference of 0.1°.

Across the 98 cities in Vietnam on this site, the Qibla ranges from 282.3° in Lao Cai to 289.4° in Ca Mau, a spread of 7.2°. That is too large to use one national direction, so each city has its own bearing.

See all cities on the Qibla page for Vietnam.

Qibla in cities near Phổ Yên

• Thai Nguyen283.3° · 20 km
• Phúc Yên283.4° · 28 km
• Bac Ninh283.5° · 32 km
• Thị Trấn Đại Từ283.2° · 35 km
• Bắc Giang283.5° · 36 km
• Hanoi283.6° · 44 km