The opposite side of the world from Funchal (FNC)
Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport — 32.70°N, 16.77°W
Exact antipodal point
32.70°S, 163.23°E
Nearest airport to that point
Burnt Pine, Norfolk Island NLK
Norfolk Island International Airport
The exact point falls in open water or empty terrain: the nearest airport is 606 km away from it. Roughly 71% of the Earth is ocean, so most antipodes land at sea.
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Of the maximum possible
97%
No two points on Earth can be more than about 20,015 km apart.
The antipode is found by negating the latitude and shifting the longitude by 180°. Distances use the haversine formula on a sphere of mean radius 6,371.0088 km. Airport coordinates come from the public-domain OurAirports dataset.