Qibla direction › South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa · 6,558 km to the Kaaba
At Zawal today (12:33 PM in Cape Town) the sun is due north, so every shadow points due south. Stand facing along your shadow, then turn 157° to your left: you are facing the Qibla. The shadow method works any day; only the time of Zawal changes.
| City | From Cape Town | Qibla | To Makkah |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soweto | 1,243 km | 15° | 5,458 km |
| Johannesburg | 1,262 km | 15° | 5,446 km |
| Durban | 1,272 km | 10° | 5,779 km |
| Pretoria | 1,308 km | 15° | 5,393 km |
| Mombasa | 3,982 km | 0° | 2,833 km |
| Nairobi | 4,102 km | 7° | 2,547 km |
Stand facing true north, then turn clockwise by 23° (north-northeast). With a phone, the Yaad-e-Namaz app's Qibla compass does this for you and corrects for the difference between magnetic and true north. Hold the phone flat and away from metal and magnets.
From Cape Town, the Qibla is 23° from true north (North-northeast). Makkah is about 6,558 km away.
From true north. A magnetic compass can be off by a few degrees depending on where you are; the Yaad-e-Namaz app corrects for this automatically.
