Qibla direction in Ecuador

At a glance

• Quito, the capital: 66°, east-north-east, 12,935 km from the Kaaba.
• The Qibla turns by 2° across the country, from 65° in Esmeraldas to 68° in Loja.
• Closest to Makkah: Ibarra, 12,868 km. Farthest: Machala, 13,215 km.
• Around Quito, a magnetic compass points about 5° west of true north (World Magnetic Model 2025, for 2026). On a needle compass, the Qibla there is about 71°.

Qibla from every city in Ecuador

Cities of 100,000 people or more, largest first.

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Reading these numbers

Each bearing is measured clockwise from true north along the shortest path over the globe, a great circle, which is how the Qibla is worked out. A flat map can mislead, because the Earth is round.

Phone compasses work best after calibrating with a figure-8, away from metal and magnetic cases. Our guide to finding the Qibla also covers the sun, the local mosque and praying when unsure.

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City data: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Magnetic declination: the World Magnetic Model 2025 (NOAA and the British Geological Survey).